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