African ecology and human evolution / edited by F. Clark Howell and François Bourlière.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, F. Clark (Francis Clark), editor.

Contributor:

Bourlière, François, 1913-1993, editor.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Series:

Viking Fund publications in anthropology ; no. 36.

Viking Fund publications in anthropology ; no. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--Africa--Congresses.

Paleontology.

Prehistoric peoples--Africa--Congresses.

Prehistoric peoples.

Animal ecology--Africa--Congresses.

Animal ecology.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 666 pages : illustrations, maps (part folded) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1963.

Contents:

Climatic-geomorphologic interpretation of Pleistocene sediments in the Eurafrican subtropics / Karl W. Butzer

The distribution of tropical African birds as an indicator of past climatic changes / R.E. Moreau

Observations on the ecology of some large African mammals / F. Bourlière

Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa / C. Arambourg

Pleistocene mammal faunas of Africa with particular reference to southern Africa / H.B.S. Cooke

The Late Tertiary and Pleistocene in the Sahara and adjacent southerly regions / T. Monod

Some aspects of the Pleistocene paleogeography of the Chad basin / A.T. Grove and R.A. Pullan

The later Tertiary and Pleistocene in eastern equatorial Africa / W.W. Bishop

Paleoecological conditions of the Lake Albert-Lake Edward Rift / J. de Heinzelin

Observations of the absolute chronology of the Upper Pleistocene / J. de Heinzelin

Brief remarks on the vegetation of the mountainous regions of East Congo / L. Liben

Pleistocene environments in southern Africa / Geoffrey Bond

Baboon ecology and human evolution / Irven DeVore and S.L. Washburn

Observations on the ecology and social behavior of the mountain gorilla / George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen, Jr.

Adaptive radiation in the Australopithecines and the origin of man / J.T. Robinson

Human evolution in Morocco, in the framework of the paleoclimatic variations of the Atlantic Pleistocene / P. Biberson

Very early East African hominidae, and their ecological setting / L.S.B. Leakey

Acheulian hunter-gatherers of Sub-Saharan Africa / F. Clark Howell and J. Desmond Clark

Some ecolgical factors effecting human populations in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Hiernaux.

Notes:

"Background papers and discussion transcription of a symposium, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ... Burg Wartenstein, Austria ... July 10 to 22, 1961."

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

3329545