The first humans
Subtitle: origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3-October 7, 2006
By: edited by Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey.
Contributors: Grine, Frederick E., 1952-; Fleagle, John G.; Leakey, Richard E.
Series: Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series; Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Dordrecht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781402099793; 9781402099809
Subjects: Human beings -- Origin -- Congresses; Human evolution -- Congresses; Fossil hominids -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Early humans : of whom do we speak?  -- Richard E. Leakey; title: Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later  -- Phillip V. Tobias; title: Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know?  -- Bernard A. Wood; title: The origin of Homo  -- William H. Kimbel; title: Comparisons of early Pleistocene skulls from East Africa and the Georgian Caucasus : evidence bearing on the origin and systematics of genus Homo  -- G. Philip Rightmire and David Lordkipanidze; title: Phenetic affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo fossils from South Africa : molar cusp proportions  -- Frederick E. Grine ... [et al.]; title: Evolution of the hominin shoulder : early Homo  -- Susan G. Larson; title: Brains, brawn, and the evolution of human endurance running capabilities  -- Daniel E. Lieberman ... [et al.]; title: Interlimb proportions in humans and fossil hominins : variability and scaling  -- William L. Jungers; title: Growth and development of the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000  -- M. Christopher Dean and B. Holly Smith; title: Dental evidence for diets of early Homo  -- Peter S. Ungar and Robert S. Scott; title: Origins and adaptations of early Homo : what archeology tells us  -- Hélène Roche, Robert J. Blumenschine and John J. Shea; title: Plio-Pleistocene East African pulsed climate variability and its influence on early human evolution  -- Mark A. Maslin and Martin H. Trauth; title: Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary  -- Kaye E. Reed and Samantha M. Russak; title: Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the emergence of Homo  -- René Bobe and Meave G. Leakey; title: Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa  -- Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp; title: The first humans : a summary perspective on the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo -- Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle.