Contemporary issues in human evolution
By: editors, W. Eric Meikle, F. Clark Howell, Nina G. Jablonski.
Contributors: Meikle, William Eric.; Howell, F. Clark; Jablonski, Nina G.; California Academy of Sciences.; Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Foundation Endowment Symposium (1st : 1993 : California Academy of Sciences)
Series: Wattis Symposium series in anthropology; Memoir / California Academy of Sciences ;; 21; Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences (1988) ;; no. 21.
Publisher: California Academy of Sciences
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Human evolution -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of the First Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Foundation Endowment Symposium, held at the California Academy of Sciences on February 6, 1993.
"December 2, 1996."
Table of contents: title: Thoughts on the study and interpretation of the human fossil record / F. Clark Howell; title: Paleoanthropology and preconception / Ian Tattersall; title: Grades and clades : a paleontological perspective on phylogenetic issues / Pascal Tassy; title: Homoplasy, clades, and hominid phylogeny / Henry M. McHenry; title: The genus Paranthropus : what's in a name? / Ronald J. Clarke; title: Origin and evolution of the genus Homo / Bernard Wood; title: Current issues in modern human origins / Christopher B. Stringer; title: Behavior and human evolution / Alison S. Brooks; title: Molecular anthropology in retrospect and prospect / Jonathan Marks.