Handbook of Paleoanthropology / edited by Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henke, Winfried, editor.

Tattersall, Ian, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Paleontology.

Anthropology.

Evolutionary Biology.

Local Subjects:

Evolutionary Biology.

Paleontology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 illustrations, 118 illustrations in color. eReference)

Edition:

Second edition 2015.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eReference

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in paleoanthropology. A baseline storehouse covering the full extent of current knowledge, the volume features an online e-reference work that will be updated with future developments in this fascinating discipline. Often cited as the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences, paleoanthropology encompasses a vast range of techniques drawn from geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, among many others. Guided by an editorial team of global stature, the contributions reflect the best of today's scholarship. Each volume covers core constituents of the subject: basic principles and methods, primate evolution and human origins, and the phylogeny of hominins. The editors have ensured that the entries uphold a key principle of paleoanthropology, requiring historical assessments to be updated with developing knowledge of the living world. The handbook's first volume incorporates the enormous advances made in such areas as phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Volume II integrates primate fossil data with the vast amount that is now known of the behavior and ecology of living primates in natural environments. The third volume deals with the fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives. Paleoanthropology is characterized by its many live and unresolved academic debates, which are reflected in the heterogeneity of intellectual standpoints in this handbook. This planned diversity ensures that the Springer Handbook of Paleoanthropology is a multilayered, comprehensive companion of inestimable value to students, academics, and working professionals alike.

Contents:

Volume 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches: Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research

Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis (NEW)

Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus

The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology

Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms

Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies

Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics

Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective

Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology

Patterns of Diversification and Extinction

Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes

Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction

The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments (NEW)

Geological Background of Hominid Sites in Africa

Paleosols

Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments (NEW)

Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites

Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past?

Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns

The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations

Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes

Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids

Genetics and Paleoanthropology (NEW)

Ancient DNA .-Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach

Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach .-Modeling the Past: Archaeology

The Evolution of Speech and Language (NEW)

General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology

Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics (NEW)

Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone (NEW)

Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone (NEW)

Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives (NEW)

Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors (NEW)

Prospects and Pitfalls

Volume 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins: Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence

Molecular Evidence of Primate Origins and Evolution (NEW)

Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene (NEW)

Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids

The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids

Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids

Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation

Dental Adaptations of African Apes

Evolution of the Primate Brain

Primate Life Histories

Great Ape Social Systems

Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition

The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees

Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances

Primate Intelligence

Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective (NEW)

Volume 3: Phylogeny of Hominins: Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae

Defining Hominidae

Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins

Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins

Origin of Bipedal Locomotion

The Evolution of the Hominid Brain (NEW)

Analyzing Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach

Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach

The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids

The Species and Diversity of Australopiths

Defining the Genus Homo

The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils

Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries

Defining Homo erectus (NEW)

Later Middle Pleistocene Homo

Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries

Homo floresiensis (NEW)

Origin of Modern Humans

Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins

Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories (NEW)

Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia

Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology

Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia

Evolution of Religion (NEW)

Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology.

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ISBN:

978-3-642-39979-4

9783642399794

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