Handbook of paleoanthropology /
Henke, Winfried.
Tattersall, Ian.
Hardt, Thorolf.
Berlin : Springer-Verlag,
c2007.
v. 1 - xxx, 1-830, [2083-2173] p. -- v. 2 - xx, 831-1346, [2083-2173] -- v. 3 - xxvi, 1347-2173.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
v. 1. Principles, methods and approaches -- v. 2. Primate evolution and human origins -- v. 3. Phylogeny of hominids.
v. 1. Principles, methods and approaches. Historical overview of paleoanthropological research / Winifried Henke -- 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 -- Quantitative approaches to phylogenetics / Kaila E. Folinsbee ... [et al] -- Homology : a philosophical and biological perspective / Olivier Rieppel -- Taphonomic and diagenetic processes / Gisela Grupe -- Archeology / Miriam N. Haidle -- Contribution of stable light isotopes to paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Julia Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer -- Chronometric methods in paleoanthropology / Gunther A. Wagner -- Geological background of early hominid sites in Africa / Ottmar Kullmer -- Paleoclimate / Keith Alverson -- Paleosols / Gregory Retallack -- Quaternary deposits and paleosites / Klaus-Dieter Jager -- Zoogeography : primate and early hominin distribution and migration patterns / Alan Turner, Hannah O'Regan -- Patterns of diversification and extinction / Walter Etter -- Paleoecology : an adequate window on the past? / Thorolf Hardt, Britta Hardt, Peter R. Menke -- Hominin paleodiets : the contribution of stable isotopes / Matt Sponheimer, Julia Lee-Thorp -- Estimation of basic life history data of fossil hominoids / Helmut Hemmer -- Population genetics and paleoanthropology / John H. Relethford -- Ancient DNA / Susanne Hummel -- Paleodemography of extinct hominin populations / Janet Monge, Alan Mann -- Modeling the past : the primatological approach / R.W. Sussman, Donna Hart -- Modeling the past : the paleoethnological evidence / Paolo Biagi -- Modeling the past : the linguistic approach / Bernard Comrie -- General principles of evolutionary morphology / Gabriele A. Macho -- Computer-based reconstruction : technical aspects and applications / Lilian Ulhaas -- Prospects and pitfalls / Jean-Jacques Hublin.
v. 2. Primate evolution and human origins. Primate origins and supraordinal relationships : morphological evidence / Mary T. Silcox ... [et. al] -- Molecular evidence on primate origins and evolution / Hans Zischler -- Fossil record of the primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene / D. Tab Rasmussen -- Fossil record of Miocene hominoids / David R. Begun -- The biotic environments of the late Miocene hominids / Jordi Agusti -- Postcranial and locomotor adaptations of hominoids / Carol V. Ward -- Hominoid cranial diversity and adaptation / Alan Bilsborough, Todd C. Rae -- Dental adaptations of African apes / Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar -- Evolution of the primate brain / Dean Falk -- Primate life histories / Elke Zimmermann, Ute Radespiel -- The biology and evolution of ape and monkey feeding / Joanna E. Lambert -- Great ape social systems / Angela Meder -- Primate intelligence / Richard W. Byrne -- Chimpanzee hunting behavior / Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher -- Cooperation, coalition, alliances / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Jutta Steinhauser.
v. 3. Phylogeny of hominids. Potential hominoid ancestors for Hominidae / George D. Koufos -- Defining Hominidae / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Origins of Homininae and putative selection pressures acting on the early hominins / Boguslaw Pawlowski -- Role of environmental stimuli in hominid origins / Elisabeth S. Vrba -- The origins of bipedal locomotion / William E.H. Harcourt-Smith -- The earliest putative hominids / Brigitte Senut -- The species and diversity of Australopiths / William H. Kimbel -- Defining the genus Homo / Mark Collard, Bernard Wood -- The earliest putative Homo fossils / Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, Timothy Bromage -- Homo ergaster and its contemporaries / Ian Tattersall -- Defining Homo erectus : size considered / Susan C. Anton ... [et. al] -- Later middle Pleistocene Homo / G. Philip Rightmire -- Neanderthals and their contemporaries / Katerina Harvati -- Origin of modern humans / Gunter Brauer -- Analyzing hominid phylogeny / David Strait, Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle -- Phylogenetic relationships (Biomolecules) / Todd R. Disotell -- Population biology and population genetics of Pleistocene hominins / Alan R. Templeton -- Species concepts and speciation : facts and fantasies / Colin Groves -- Human environmental impact in the Paleolithic and Neolithic / Wolfgang Nentwig -- The dentition of American Indians : evolutionary results and demographic implications following colonization from Siberia / Christy G. Turner II, G. Richard Scott -- Overview of Paleolithic archeology / Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick -- The network of brain, body, language, and culture / Steven Mithen -- Cultural evolution in Africa and Eurasia during the middle and late Pleistocene / Nicholas Conrad -- Paleoanthropology and the foundation of ethics : methodological remarks on the problem of criteriology / Mathias Gutmann, Michael Weingarten.
Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology.