Screen LibraryThe first humans：origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3 - October 7, 2006
Saved in:
| Corporate Authors: | ; |
|---|---|
| Group Author: | ; ; |
| Published: |
Springer,
|
| Publisher Address: | [Dordrecht] |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9980-9 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 218 p.): ill. |
| ISBN: |
9781402099809 (electronic bk.) 1402099800 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | Q981 |
| CLC: | Q981.1-532 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know? / Bernard A. Wood -- The origin of Homo / William H. Kimbel -- 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 -- Phenetic affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo fossils from South Africa : molar cusp proportions / Frederick E. Grine ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the hominin shoulder : early Homo / Susan G. Larson -- Brains, brawn, and the evolution of human endurance running capabilities / Daniel E. Lieberman ... [et al.] -- Interlimb proportions in humans and fossil hominins : variability and scaling / William L. Jungers -- Growth and development of the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000 / M. Christopher Dean and B. Holly Smith -- Dental evidence for diets of early Homo / Peter S. Ungar and Robert S. Scott -- Origins and adaptations of early Homo : what archeology tells us / Hélène Roche, Robert J. Blumenschine and John J. Shea -- Plio-Pleistocene East African pulsed climate variability and its influence on early human evolution / Mark A. Maslin and Martin H. Trauth -- Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary / Kaye E. Reed and Samantha M. Russak -- Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the emergence of Homo / René Bobe and Meave G. Leakey -- Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa / Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp -- The first humans : a summary perspective on the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo / Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle. |