Handbook of Paleoanthropology

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 update...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Henke, Winfried (Editor ), Tattersall, Ian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:2nd ed. 2015.
Temas:
Evolution (Biology).
Paleontology .
Anthropology.
Evolutionary Biology.
Paleontology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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