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A Companion to Paleoanthropology
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
 1. Edition February 2013
155.- Euro
2013. 648 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4443-3116-5 - John Wiley & Sons
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A Companion to Paleoanthropology offers a broad overview of the central research on fossil hominid evidence around the world and its implications for human origins. Begun provides a guide to the study of the evolutionary history of humans and our place in the diversity of life. Top scholars are enlisted to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of developments in the field, so that this new companion offers an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students in human evolution, paleoanthropology, physical/biological anthropology, paleontology, and archaeology.
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Contents
1. Introduction
David R. Begun
2. History
Matthew R. Goodrum
Part I. Background to Paleoanthropology
Section 1. Method and theory
3. Human Systematics
David S. Strait
4. Experimental Approaches to Musculoskeletal Function
Matthew J. Ravosa, Kimberly A. Congdon and Rachel A. Menegaz
5. Multivariate Quantitative Methods in Paleoanthropology
Michael A. Schillaci and Philipp Gunz
6. Growth, Development and Life History in Hominin Evolution
Jay Kelley and Debra Bolter
Section 2. Anatomical regions
7. Cranial Evolution in the Apes
Brian T. Shea
8. Hominid Brain Evolution
Thomas Schoenemann
9. Hominin diets
Peter S. Ungar and Matt Sponheimer
10. Origin and Evolution of Human Postcranial Anatomy
Brian G. Richmond and Kevin G. Hatala
Section 3. Environment and behavior
11. Multiproxy Paleoecology. Reconstructing evolutionary context in paleoanthropology
Kaye E. Reed
12. Reconstructing Social Behavior from Fossil Evidence
J. Michael Plavcan
13. Geochronology
Alan L. Deino
14. The Origins and Evolution of Technology
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
Section 4. Genetics and race
15. Genetic perspectives on ape and human evolution
Todd R. Disotell
16. The Genetics of Morphology
Richard J. Sherwood and Dana L. Duren
17. Paleoanthropology and Race
Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
Part II. The fossil record
Section 5. Paleogene primates
18. Primate Origins
Mary T. Silcox
19. Anthropoid Origins
K. Christopher Beard
20. Catarrhine origins
Terry Harrison
Section 6. Neogene/Quaternary hominoids
21. The Miocene Hominoid Radiations
David R. Begun
22. Before Australopithecus. The Earliest Hominins
Scott W. Simpson
23. Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus
Carol V. Ward and Ashley S. Hammond
24. Paranthropus
Bernard Wood and Kes Schroer
Section 7. The age of Homo
25. Earliest Homo
Friedemann Schrenk
26. Homo erectus and related taxa
Susan C. Antón
27. The Middle Pleistocene Record. On the Ancestry of Neandertals, Modern Humans and Others
Jean-Jacques Hublin
28. Neanderthals
Katerina Harvati
29. Modern human origins
Mark Collard and Mana Dembo
30. Homo floresiensis
William L. Jungers
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