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The paleobiology of Australopithecus : contributions from the Fourth Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, Diversity in Australopithecus : Tracking the First Bipeds, September 25-28, 2007 / edited by Kaye E. Reed, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey.
Penn Museum Library GN283 .S76 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop (4th : 2007 : Stony Brook University)
- Series:
- Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology
- Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, 1877-9077
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australopithecines--Congresses.
- Australopithecines.
- Paleobiology--Africa, East--Congresses.
- Paleobiology.
- Paleobiology--Africa, Southern--Congresses.
- Fossil hominids--Africa, East--Congresses.
- Fossil hominids.
- Fossil hominids--Africa, Southern--Congresses.
- Southern Africa.
- Africa, East.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2013]
- Contents:
- Introduction : Issues in the life and times of Australopithecus / Kaye E. Reed
- Age ranges of Australopithecus species, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania / Francis H. Brown, Ian McDougall and Patrick N. Gathogo
- A multi-disciplinary perspective on the age of Australopithecus in southern Africa / Andy I.R. Herries, Robyn Pickering, Justin W. Adams, Darren Curnoe, Ginette Warr, Alf G. Latham and John Shaw
- Reconstructing the habitats of Australopithecus : paleoenvironments, site taphonomy, and faunas / Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Kaye E. Reed
- Australopithecus in Ethiopia / Zeresenay Alemseged
- The alpha taxonomy of Australopithecus africanus / Frederick E. Grine
- Australopithecus from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa / Ronald Clarke
- Variation in mandibular postcanine dental morphology and hominin species representation in Member 4, Sterkfontein, South Africa / Frederick E. Grine, Marcia M. Delanty and Bernard A. Wood
- Australopithecus sediba from Malapa, South Africa / Darryl J. de Ruiter, Steven E. Churchill and Lee R. Berger
- Comparative evolutionary models and the "Australopith radiations" / Robert A. Foley
- Whence Australopithecus africanus? : comparing the skulls of South African and East African Australopithecus / Charles Lockwood
- The biogeographic implications of early hominin phylogeny / David S. Strait
- Sexual size dimorphism in Australopithecus : current understanding and new directions / Adam D. Gordon
- Molar microwear, diet and adaptation in a purported hominin species lineage from the Pliocene of East Africa / Frederick E. Grine, Peter S. Ungar, Mark F. Teaford and Sireen El-Zaatari
- Some ruminations on australopith diets / Matt Sponheimer
- Postural and locomotor adaptations of Australopithecus species / Carol V. Ward
- Shoulder morphology in early hominin evolution / Susan G. Larson
- Age and sex differences in the locomotor skeleton of Australopithecus / Elizabeth H. Harmon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9400759185
- 9789400759183
- OCLC:
- 813948071
- Publisher Number:
- 99953703642
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