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African genesis : perspectives on hominin evolution /
Reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ;
62. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- African Genesis: an evolving paradigm
- Academic genealogy
- In search of origins: evolutionary theory, new species and paths into the past
- Searching for a new paradigm for hominid origins in Chad (Central Africa)
- The new deal ... west of the Rift Valley
- The Chadian hominids
- From hominoid arboreality to hominid bipedalism
- Orrorin and the African ape/hominid dichotomy
- A brief review of history and results of 40 years of Sterkfontein excavations
- Hominin morphology through time: brains, bodies and teeth
- Hominin brain evolution, 1925-2011: an emerging overview
- The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right
- The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel?
- Origin and diversity of early hominin bipedalism
- Forelimb adaptations in Australopithecus afarensis
- Hominin proximal femur morphology from the Tugen Hills to Flores
- Daily rates of dentine formation and root extension rates in Paranthropus boisei, KNM-ER 1817, from Koobi Fora, Kenya
- On the evolutionary development of early hominid molar teeth and the Gondolin Paranthropus molar
- Digital South African fossils: morphological studies using reference-based reconstruction and electronic preparation
- Modern human origins: patterns and processes
- The African origin of recent humanity
- Assimilation and modern human origins in the African peripheries
- Patterns of Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa and the emergence of modern humans
- Integration of the genetic, anatomical and archaeological data for the African origin of modern humans: problems and prospects
- In search of context: hominin environments, behaviour and lithic cultures
- Animal palaeocommunity variability and habitat preference of the robust australopiths in South Africa
- Impacts of environmental change and community ecology on the composition and diversity of the southern African monkey fauna from the Plio-Pleistocene to the present
- African Genesis revisited: reflections on Raymond Dart and the 'predatory transition from ape( -man) to man'
- Shared intention in early artefacts: an exploration of deep structure and implications for communication and language
- Sibudu Cave: recent archaeological work on the Middle Stone Age
- The oldest burials and their significance.