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The first humans : origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3-October 7, 2006 / edited by Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropologyPublication details: [Dordrecht] : Springer, c2009.Description: xi, 218 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781402099793 (hbk.)
  • 1402099797 (hbk.)
  • 1402099800 (ebk.)
  • 9781402099809 (ebk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN281 .S859 2006
Contents:
Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know? / Bernard A. Wood -- The origin of Homo / William H. Kimbel -- Comparisons of early Pleistocene skulls from East Africa and the Georgian Caucasus : evidence bearing on the origin and systematics of genus Homo / G. Philip Rightmire and David Lordkipanidze -- Phenetic affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo fossils from South Africa : molar cusp proportions / Frederick E. Grine ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the hominin shoulder : early Homo / Susan G. Larson -- Brains, brawn, and the evolution of human endurance running capabilities / Daniel E. Lieberman ... [et al.] -- Interlimb proportions in humans and fossil hominins : variability and scaling / William L. Jungers -- Growth and development of the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000 / M. Christopher Dean and B. Holly Smith -- Dental evidence for diets of early Homo / Peter S. Ungar and Robert S. Scott -- Origins and adaptations of early Homo : what archeology tells us / HeÌleÌne Roche, Robert J. Blumenschine and John J. Shea -- Plio-Pleistocene East African pulsed climate variability and its influence on early human evolution / Mark A. Maslin and Martin H. Trauth -- Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary / Kaye E. Reed and Samantha M. Russak -- Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the emergence of Homo / ReneÌ Bobe and Meave G. Leakey -- Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa / Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp -- The first humans : a summary perspective on the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo / Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks GN281 .S859 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001113223

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know? / Bernard A. Wood -- The origin of Homo / William H. Kimbel -- Comparisons of early Pleistocene skulls from East Africa and the Georgian Caucasus : evidence bearing on the origin and systematics of genus Homo / G. Philip Rightmire and David Lordkipanidze -- Phenetic affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo fossils from South Africa : molar cusp proportions / Frederick E. Grine ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the hominin shoulder : early Homo / Susan G. Larson -- Brains, brawn, and the evolution of human endurance running capabilities / Daniel E. Lieberman ... [et al.] -- Interlimb proportions in humans and fossil hominins : variability and scaling / William L. Jungers -- Growth and development of the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000 / M. Christopher Dean and B. Holly Smith -- Dental evidence for diets of early Homo / Peter S. Ungar and Robert S. Scott -- Origins and adaptations of early Homo : what archeology tells us / HeÌleÌne Roche, Robert J. Blumenschine and John J. Shea -- Plio-Pleistocene East African pulsed climate variability and its influence on early human evolution / Mark A. Maslin and Martin H. Trauth -- Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary / Kaye E. Reed and Samantha M. Russak -- Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the emergence of Homo / ReneÌ Bobe and Meave G. Leakey -- Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa / Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp -- The first humans : a summary perspective on the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo / Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle.

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