Man and his origins
Subtitle: selected papers of the IInd Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Brno 1980
By: edited by Jan Jelínek ; assistant editor, Alena Mizerová
Contributors: European Anthropological Association. Congress; Ústav Anthropos (Moravské muzeum v Brně); Univerzita Karlova. Anthropologický ústav
Series: Anthropos : studies in anthropology, palaeoethnology, palaeontology and quarternary geology -- v. 21, 1982; Anthropos (Brno, Czech Republic) -- č. 21
Publisher: Anthropos Institute, Moravian Museum; Anthropological Institute of the Charles University
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Brno; Prague
Language: eng; fre; rus
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Human beings; Origin; Congresses; Human evolution
Notes: In English, French and Russian.

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology, evolution, culture and communication : a biologically based explanation of cultural evolution / M.O. Baldia; title: The principle of sociogenesis and the future of mankind / V.J.A. Novák; title: Methodology and heuristic methods in the study of human evolution (in Russian) / A.P. Polikarov, T.D. Kardashev; title: The semantic content and definition of neoteny as related to some basic concepts of general morphology / V. Přivratský, A. Wierciński; title: Chimpanzee locomotion and implications for the origin of hominid bipedality / V. Vančata; title: Evolutionary morphology of hominoid lower limb long bones : multivariate analysis of femur and tibia / V. Vančata; title: Evolutive meaning in variations of human lumbar bend / A. Guidotti, E. Romano, S. Rossi; title: A biometrical comparative study of the os coxae of Hominidae, Pongidae and Australopithecus STS 14 / R. Orban; title: Some considerations on human hand evolution / A. Guidotti; title: Cerebral leaps and bounds : a punctuational perspective on hominid cranial capacity increase / K. Jacobs, L. Godfrey; title: Cranial interrelations and adaptability / B. Škvařilová, Z. Šmahel; title: Simulation of a biomechanical model of the evolutive morphology of the human skull / V. Pesce Delfino [and others]; title: Remarks on the evolution of supraorbital and superciliary ridges in fossil man / F. Facchini, D. Pettener; title: Variations in size and shape of the orbital contour. A comparison between man and the greater apes using Fourier analysis / B. Jacobshagen; title: Phylogenetic aspects of communicative contact / V. Blažek, M. Špaček; title: Osteological inference from the archaeological perspective / M.O. Baldia; title: Early stone tool-makers and the definition of the genus homo / D. Stiles; title: Some aspects of human reproduction / A. Doležal [and others]; title: Evaluation of the difference in certa in epigenetic traits of the skull between some populations : a Bayesian approach / M. di Bacco, D. Cocchi; title: Arguments on Gigantopithecus; title: pros and cons / A.K. Ghosh, A.K. Sen; title: The East and Southeast Asian way of regional evolution / J. Jelínek; title: The age of skeleton of Archanthropus petraloniensis / A.N. Poulianos; title: Remarks concerning the phylogenetic significance of the Petralona skull / N.J. Xirotiris, W. Henke; title: Stone industries of early man. Some aspects of the instrumental adaptation process / J. Svoboda; title: Paranasal sinuses of Saccopastore I and II / P. Passarello, R. Diotallevi; title: The Mousterian complexes in Italy : a search for cultural understanding of the industrial assemblages / A. Bietti; title: Artificial injuries on fossil human bones and the problem of cannibalism, skull-cult and burial-rites / H. Ullrich; title: New human Paleolithic fossils of Middle Europe / W. Henke, N.J. Xirotiris; title: Le système des veines méningées moyennes chez les hommes fossiles de Tchécoslovaquie, d'après le moulage endocrânien / R. Saban; title: The earliest Americans : facts and fiction / R.R. Protsch; title: Application of principal component and discriminant analyses to the anthropological definition of the Italian Mesolithic samples / F. Bianchi [and others]; title: An outline of the population history of Neolithic Carpathian Basin / L. Szathmáry; title: Anthropological analysis of the pan-grave culture of Nubia and Egypt / E. Strouhal; title: Population genetical studies of some Avar age cemeteries on the basis of their ABO blood group properties / F. Juhász, I. Lengyel; title: Biological reconstruction of early historic populations of the Bulgarian regions (in Russian) / P. Boev, N. Kondova, S. Tcholakov; title: Considerations regarding the anthropology of the period of the mass migrations and the early Middle Ages in Switzerland / B. Kaufmann; title: Difference of the metric characteristics of skulls related to age of the deceased. Medieval and modern burial ground in Ducové / M. Stloukal; title: Neoplasms from the ancient cemeteries in Poland / J. Gładykowska-Rzeczycka; title: Radiological indicators of rickets in skeletal remains of ancient populations for the study of relation[n]ships between man and environment / P. Passarello, R. Diotallevi; title: Comparative investigation into the bone fractures from the 6th-8th centuries / A. Marcsik, F. Kósa; title: Palaeopathology of the medieval Bulgarian population / N. Kondova, P. Boev, S. Tcholakov; title: Demographic aspects in the human evolution / Z. Pavlík.