Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment -- 1. Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology -- 2. Facies Analysis and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology -- 3. East African HomininPaleoecology -- 4. Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate Change, and Human Evolution in Africa -- Part 2: Hominin Adaptations and Behavior -- 5. Early Hominin Postureand Locomotion -- 6. The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth -- 7. Dental Microwear and Paleoecology -- 8. Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry -- 9. The Behavior of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins -- Part 3: Analogies and Models -- 10. Plants and Protopeople -- 11. Chimpanzee Models of Human Behavioral Evolution -- 12. Analogies and Models in the Study of the Early Hominins -- Contributors -- Index.