TY - BOOK AU - Grine,Frederick E. AU - Fleagle,John G. AU - Leakey,Richard E. ED - Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop TI - 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 T2 - Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series SN - 9781402099793 (hbk.) AV - GN281 .S859 2006 PY - 2009/// CY - [Dordrecht] PB - Springer KW - Human beings KW - Origin KW - Congresses KW - Human evolution KW - Fossil hominids N1 - 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 ER -