A Companion to Paleoanthropology.
Title:
A Companion to Paleoanthropology.
Author:
Begun, David R.
ISBN:
9781118332375
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (743 pages)
Series:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Contents:
A Companion to Paleoanthropology -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Past, Present and Future of Paleoanthropology -- Chapter 2 History -- Part I Background to Paleoanthropology -- Section 1 Method and Theory -- Chapter 3 Human Systematics -- Chapter 4 Experimental Approaches to Musculoskeletal Function in Primates -- Chapter 5 Multivariate Quantitative Methods in Paleoanthropology -- Chapter 6 Growth, Development, and Life History in Hominin Evolution -- Section 2 Anatomical Regions -- Chapter 7 Cranial Evolution in the Apes -- Chapter 8 Hominid Brain Evolution -- Chapter 9 Hominin Diets -- Chapter 10 Origin and Evolution of Human Postcranial Anatomy -- Section 3 Environment and Behavior -- Chapter 11 Multiproxy Paleoecology: Reconstructing Evolutionary Context in Paleoanthropology -- Chapter 12 Reconstructing Social Behavior from Fossil Evidence -- Chapter 13 Geochronology -- Chapter 14 The Origins and Evolution of Technology -- Section 4 Genetics and Race -- Chapter 15 Genetic Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution -- Chapter 16 The Genetics of Morphology -- Chapter 17 Paleoanthropology and Race -- Part II The Fossil Record -- Section 5 Paleogene Primates -- Chapter 18 Primate Origins -- Chapter 19 Anthropoid Origins -- Chapter 20 Catarrhine Origins -- Section 6 Neogene/Quaternary Hominoids -- Chapter 21 The Miocene Hominoid Radiations -- Chapter 22 Before Australopithecus: The Earliest Hominins -- Chapter 23 Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus -- Chapter 24 Paranthropus -- Section 7 The Age of Homo -- Chapter 25 Earliest Homo -- Chapter 26 Homo erectus and Related Taxa -- Chapter 27 The Middle Pleistocene Record: On the Ancestry of Neandertals, Modern Humans and Others … -- Chapter 28 Neanderthals -- Chapter 29 Modern Human Origins.
Chapter 30 Homo floresiensis -- Index.
Abstract:
A Companion to Paleoanthropology presents a compendium of readings from leading scholars in the field that define our current knowledge of the major discoveries and developments in human origins and human evolution, tracing the fossil record from primate and hominid origins to the dispersal of modern humans across the globe. Represents an accessible state-of-the-art summary of the entire field of paleoanthropology, with an overview of hominid taxonomy Features articles on the key discoveries in ape and human evolution, in cranial, postcranial and brain evolution, growth and development Surveys the breadth of the paleontological record from primate origins to modern humans Highlights the unique methods and techniques of paleoanthropology, including dating and ecological methods, and use of living primate date to reconstruct behavior in fossil apes and humans.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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