Handbook of Paleoanthropology
Handbook of Paleoanthropology
Editors: Henke, Winfried and Tattersall, Ian
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
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ISBN: 978-3-642-39978-7
Category: Social Sciences - Anthropology
Image Count:
392
Book Status: Available
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This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in paleoanthropology. A baseline storehouse covering the full extent of current knowledge, the volume is a multilayered, comprehensive companion of inestimable value to students, academics, and working professionals alike.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to Volume 1, Second Edition
- Preface to Volume 2, Second Edition
- Preface to Volume 3, Second Edition
- Editors
- Contributors
- Part I Principles, Methods, and Approaches
- Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research - Winfried Henke
- Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis - Franz M. Wuketits
- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus - Philippe Huneman
- The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology - Peter R. Menke
- Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms - Michael Ohl
- Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies - Colin Groves
- Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics - Kaila E. Folinsbee, David C. Evans, Jörg Fröbisch, Daniel R. Brooks and Linda A. Tsuji
- Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective - Olivier Rieppel
- Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology - Daniel Richter and Guenther A. Wagner
- Patterns of Diversification and Extinction - Walter Etter
- Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes - Gisela Grupe and Michaela Harbeck
- Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction - Julia Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer
- The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments - John Rowan and Kaye E. Reed
- Geological Background of Early Hominid Sites in Africa - Ottmar Kullmer
- Paleosols - Gregory Retallack
- Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments - John A. Van Couvering
- Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites - Klaus-Dieter Jäger
- Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past? - Thorolf Hardt, Peter R. Menke and Britta Hardt
- Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns - Alan Turner and Hannah O’Regan
- The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations - Janet Monge and Alan Mann
- Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes - Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp
- Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids - Helmut Hemmer
- Genetics and Paleoanthropology - Jonathan Marks
- Ancient DNA - Susanne Hummel
- Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach - Robert W. Sussman and Donna Hart
- Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach - Paolo Biagi
- Modeling the Past: Archaeology - Miriam N. Haidle
- The Evolution of Speech and Language - Philip Lieberman and Robert C. McCarthy
- General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology - Gabriele A. Macho
- Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics - Gerhard W. Weber
- Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone - Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz
- Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone - Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz
- Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives - Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz and Michael Schultz
- Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors - Stefan Schlager and Ursula Wittwer-Backofen
- Prospects and Pitfalls - Jean-Jacques Hublin
- Part II Primate Evolution and Human Origins
- Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence - Mary T. Silcox, Eric J. Sargis, Jonathan I. Bloch and Doug M. Boyer
- Molecular Evidence on Primate Origins and Evolution - Ryan L. Raaum
- Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene - Marc Godinot
- Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids - David R. Begun
- The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominoids - Jordi Agustí
- Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids - Carol V. Ward
- Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation - Alan Bilsborough and Todd C. Rae
- Dental Adaptations of African Apes - Mark F. Teaford and Peter S. Ungar
- Evolution of the Primate Brain - Dean Falk
- Primate Life Histories - Elke Zimmermann and Ute Radespiel
- Great Ape Social Systems - Angela Meder
- Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition - Joanna E. Lambert
- The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees - Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
- Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances - Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez and Jutta Steinhauser
- Primate Intelligence - Richard W. Byrne
- Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective - Juliane Kaminski
- Part III Phylogeny of Hominins
- Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae - George D. Koufos
- Defining Hominidae - Jeffrey H. Schwartz
- Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins - Elisabeth S. Vrba
- Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins - Bogusław Pawłowski and Wioletta Nowaczewska
- Origin of Bipedal Locomotion - William E. H. Harcourt-Smith
- The Evolution of the Hominid Brain - Ralph L. Holloway
- Analyzing Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach - David Strait, Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle
- Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach - Todd R. Disotell
- The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids - Brigitte Senut
- The Species and Diversity of Australopiths - William H. Kimbel
- Defining the Genus Homo - Mark Collard and Bernard Wood
- The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils - Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer and Timothy Bromage
- Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries - Ian Tattersall
- Defining Homo erectus - Karen L. Baab
- Later Middle Pleistocene Homo - G. Philip Rightmire
- Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries - Katerina Harvati
- Homo floresiensis - Leslie C. Aiello
- Origin of Modern Humans - Günter Bräuer
- Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins - Alan R. Templeton
- Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories - Michael Bolus
- The Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia - Christy G. Turner II and G. Richard Scott
- Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology - Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick
- Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia - Nicholas J. Conard
- Evolution of Religion - Matthias Herrgen
- Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology - Mathias Gutmann and Michael Weingarten