FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Existing Understanding of the Environmental Context for Hominin Evolution -- 3 The Research Vision-Priority Research Themes -- 4 Implementing an International Scientific Program for Climate and Human Evolution Research -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies -- Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee -- Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations.