Interpreting the Past : Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution / Daniel Lieberman, Richard W. Smith, and Jay Kelley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lieberman, Daniel E., 1964- editor.

Smith, Richard J., 1948- editor.

Kelley, Jay, 1951- editor.

Series:

American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series.

American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution.

Primates--Evolution.

Primates.

Mammals--Evolution.

Mammals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., [2005]

Summary:

This volume, published in honor of the occasion of David Pilbeam's 65th birthday, covers major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution, mostly from the Miocene to the present. The papers emphasize novel interpretations of several key areas of longstanding interest and importance, including Miocene biogeography and hominoid evolution, the origins of hominids, and new interpretations of the hominid fossil record. In terms of content, most of the papers tackle key issues in the evolution of hominoids and hominids in terms of systematic paleoenvironmental and behavioral questions. More broadly, however, the papers explore the epistemological problems of how one interprets the past from the available data.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Estimating Hominoid Phylogeny from Morphological Data: Character Choice, Phylogenetic Signal and Postcranial Data

2 The Napak Hominoid: Still Proconsul major

3 Testing Models of Faunal Turnover with Neogene Mammals from Pakistan

4 The Paleoenvironmental Context of Siwalik Miocene Vertebrate Localities

5 Of Mice...Again: The Siwalik Rodent Record, Murine Distribution, and Molecular Clocks

6 New Lower Primates from the Miocene Siwaliks of Pakistan

7 The Last Common Ancestor of Apes and Humans

8 Twenty-five Years Contemplating Sivapithecus Taxonomy

9 Habitat Requirements and the Extinction of the Miocene Ape, Sivapithecus

10 Lots of Faces from Different Places: What Craniofacial Morphology Does(n't) Tell Us About Hominoid Phylogenetics

11 When it Rains it Pours: Legends and Realities of the East African Pluvials

12 Species Recognition in Paleoanthropology: Implications of Small Sample Sizes

13 Chad, Central Africa: Searching West of the Rift Valley for a New Understanding of the Hominid Origin

14 The Delta Hypothesis

15 Plio-Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Gondolin GD 2 In Situ assemblage, Northwest Province South Africa

16 The Kapthurin Formation: What We Know Now That We Didn't Know Then

17 Apples and Oranges: Morphological Versus Behavioral Transitions in the Pleistocene

18 Energy Metabolism and Transitions in Human Life Histories

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789047416616

9047416619

OCLC:

648287549

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047416616 DOI