Year: 2007
Author: Henke W., Tattersall I.
Genre: Collective monograph
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-540-32474-4
Language: English
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of pages: 2035
Paleoanthropology probably the most out of all multidisciplinary sciences. Any full review of the evolution of Homo sapiens to the cultural and biological aspects should include information on the geology, paleoecology, primatology, evolutionary biology, and other subjects. In addition, historical information should be combined and interpreted in the light of what we know of the modern world. Paleoanthropology is actively developing the discipline in which there are still many gaps. Three volumes of this book bring together the contributions of the world's top experts, reflecting the wide range of achievements of modern paleoanthropology, thus creating a unique resource for both professionals and students. Volume 1 sets out the principles, methods and approaches. In recent years, significant progress has been made in areas such as phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology, evolution and philosophy. Chapter of the first volume characterize the current state of these areas, presenting an introduction to them, and reflecting the ways of interaction. Since humans are primates, Volume 2 focuses on the origins, evolution, behavior and adaptive diversity of primates. It is built on the integration of data from the fossil primates and a vast array of information on the behavior and ecology of living primates in the wild. Volume 3 operates with fossil and molecular evidence of the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives.
Volume 1
1 Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Winfried Henke
2 Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Philippe Huneman
3 The Ontogeny–Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for
Primatology and Paleoanthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Peter R. Menke
4 Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures
for Naming and Classifying Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Michael Ohl
5 Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Kaila E. Folinsbee . David C. Evans . Jo¨rg Fro¨bisch . Linda A. Tsuji .
Daniel R. Brooks
6 Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Olivier Rieppel
7 Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Gisela Grupe
8 Archeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Miriam N. Haidle
9 Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental
Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Julia Lee‐Thorp . Matt Sponheimer
10 Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Gu¨nther A. Wagner
11 Geological Background of Early Hominid Sites in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Ottmar Kullmer
12 Paleoclimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Keith Alverson
13 Paleosols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Gregory Retallack
14 Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Klaus‐Dieter Ja¨ger
15 Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and
Migration Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Alan Turner . Hannah O’Regan
16 Patterns of Diversification and Extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Walter Etter
17 Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Thorolf Hardt . Britta Hardt . Peter R. Menke
18 Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Matt Sponheimer . Julia Lee ‐Thorp
19 Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids . . . . . . . . . . 587
Helmut Hemmer
20 Population Genetics and Paleoanthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
John H. Relethford
21 Ancient DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Susanne Hummel
22 Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Janet Monge . Alan Mann
23 Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
R. W. Sussman . Donna Hart
24 Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Paolo Biagi
xxvi Table of Contents
25 Modeling the Past: The Linguistic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747
Bernard Comrie
26 General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
Gabriele A. Macho
27 Computer‐Based Reconstruction: Technical Aspects
and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
Lilian Ulhaas
28 Prospects and Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Volume 2
1 Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological
Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
Mary T. Silcox . Eric J. Sargis . Jonathan I. Bloch . Doug M. Boyer
2 Molecular Evidence on Primate Origins and Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
Hans Zischler
3 Fossil Record of the Primates fromthe Paleocene to theOligocene . . . . . 889
D. Tab Rasmussen
4 Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921
David R. Begun
5 The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids . . . . . . . . . . . . 979
Jordi Agustı´
6 Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011
Carol V. Ward
7 Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031
Alan Bilsborough . Todd C. Rae
8 Dental Adaptations of African Apes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
Mark F. Teaford . Peter S. Ungar
9 Evolution of the Primate Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133
Dean Falk
Table of Contents xxvii
10 Primate Life Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163
Elke Zimmermann . Ute Radespiel
11 The Biology and Evolution of Ape and Monkey Feeding . . . . . . . . . . . 1207
Joanna E. Lambert
12 Great Ape Social Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235
Angela Meder
13 Primate Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273
Richard W. Byrne
14 Chimpanzee Hunting Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295
Nicholas E. Newton‐Fisher
15 Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk . Jutta Steinhauser
Volume 3
1 Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347
George D. Koufos
2 Defining Hominidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
3 Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures
Acting on the Early Hominins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409
Bogusław Pawłowski
4 Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441
Elisabeth S. Vrba
5 The Origins of Bipedal Locomotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483
William E. H. Harcourt‐Smith
6 The Earliest Putative Hominids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1519
Brigitte Senut
7 The Species and Diversity of Australopiths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539
William H. Kimbel
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8 Defining the Genus Homo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575
Mark Collard . Bernard Wood
9 The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611
Friedemann Schrenk . Ottmar Kullmer . Timothy Bromage
10 Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633
Ian Tattersall
11 Defining Homo erectus: Size Considered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655
Susan C. Anto´n . Fred Spoor . Connie D. Fellmann . Carl C. Swisher III
12 Later Middle Pleistocene Homo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1695
G. Philip Rightmire
13 Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1717
Katerina Harvati
14 Origin of Modern Humans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749
Gu¨nter Bra¨uer
15 Analyzing Hominid Phylogeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781
David Strait . Frederick E. Grine . John G. Fleagle
16 Phylogenetic Relationships (Biomolecules) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807
Todd R. Disotell
17 Population Biology and Population Genetics of
Pleistocene Hominins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
Alan R. Templeton
18 Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Colin Groves
19 Human Environmental Impact in the Paleolithic and Neolithic . . . . . 1881
Wolfgang Nentwig
20 The Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results
and Demographic Implications Following Colonization
from Siberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901
Christy G. Turner II . G. Richard Scott
Table of Contents xxix
21 Overview of Paleolithic Archeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1943
Nicholas Toth . Kathy Schick
22 The Network of Brain, Body, Language, and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965
Steven Mithen
23 Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle
and Late Pleistocene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001
Nicholas Conard
24 Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological
Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039
Mathias Gutmann . Michael Weingarten
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