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A companion to paleoanthropology / edited by David R. Begun.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 22.
- Blackwell companions to anthropology
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 22
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleoanthropology.
- Fossil hominids.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 620 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
- Summary:
- "A Companion to Paleoanthropology presents a compendium of readings representing the state-of-the-art in our knowledge relating to the study of ancient humans as found in fossil hominid evidence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Background to paleoanthropology
- pt. II. The fossil record.
- The past, present and future of paleoanthropology / David R. Begun
- History / Matthew R. Goodrum
- Human systematics / David S. Strait
- Experimental approaches to musculoskeletal function / Matthew J. Ravosa, Kimberly A. Congdon, and Rachel A. Menegaz
- Multivariate quantitative methods in paleoanthropology / Michael A. Schillaci and Philipp Gunz
- Growth, development and life history in hominin evolution / Jay Kelley and Debra Bolter
- Cranial evolution in the apes / Brian T. Shea
- Hominid brain evolution / Thomas Schoenemann
- Hominin diets / Peter S. Ungar and Matt Sponheimer
- Origin and evolution of human postcranial anatomy / Brian G. Richmond and Kevin G. Hatala
- Multiproxy paleoecology : reconstructing evolutionary context in paleoanthropology / Kaye E. Reed
- Reconstructing social behavior from fossil evidence / J. Michael Plavcan
- Geochronology / Alan L. Deino
- The origins and evolution of technology / Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
- Genetic perspectives on ape and human evolution / Todd R. Disotell
- The genetics of morphology / Richard J. Sherwood and Dana L. Duren
- Paleoanthropology and race / Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
- Primate origins / Mary T. Silcox
- Anthropoid origins / K. Christopher Beard
- Catarrhine origins / Terry Harrison
- The Miocene hominoid radiations / David R. Begun
- Before Australopithecus : the earliest hominins / Scott W. Simpson
- Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus / Ashley S. Hammond and Carol V. Ward
- Paranthropus / Bernard Wood and Kes Schroer
- Earliest Homo / Friedemann Schrenk
- Homo erectus and related taxa / Susan C. Antón
- The Middle Pleistocene record : on the ancestry of Neandertals, modern humans and others- / Jean-Jacques Hublin
- Neanderthals / Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou
- Modern human origins / Mark Collard and Mana Dembo
- Homo floresiensis / William L. Jungers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781118332344
- 1118332342
- 9781782689676
- 1782689672
- 9781299158955
- 1299158951
- 9781118332368
- 1118332369
- 9781118332375
- 1118332377
- OCLC:
- 825069294
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