xii, 366 pages : 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The "ancestors" project : an expurgated history / Ian Tattersall, John A. Van Couvering, and Eric Delson -- The role of the American Museum of Natural History in 20th century paleoanthropology / Harry L. Shapiro -- Catarrhine evolution / Eric Delson -- Family group systematics and evolution among catarrhine primates / Peter Andrews -- The paleobiology of catarrhines / John G. Fleagle and Richard F. Kay -- Origins and characteristics of the first hominoids / Elwyn L. Simons -- The Early and Middle Miocene land connection of the Afro-Arabian plate and Asia : a major event for hominoid dispersal? / Herbert Thomas -- Patterns of hominoid evolution / David Pilbeam -- Paleoenvironments, stratigraphy, and taphonomy in the African Pliocene and Early Pleistocene / Anna K. Behrensmeyer and H.B.S. Cooke / Ecological and adaptive changes associated with early hominoid evolution / E.S. Vrba -- Cultural and taphonomic comparisons of hominids from Swartkrans and Sterkfontein / C.K. Brain

Age and paleoecology of the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania / John M. Harris -- An integrated Plio-Pleistocene chronology for the Turkana Basin / F.H. Brown, I. McDougall, T. Davies, and R. Maier -- Pliocene hominids / Michael H. Day -- Single characters and the total morphological pattern redefined : the sorting effected by a selection of morphological features of the early hominids / Phillip V. Tobias -- Cranian morphology and systematics of the Hadar Formation hominids and "Australopithecus" africanus / Todd R. Olson -- Craniodental morphology of the hominids from Hadar and Laetoli : evidence of "Paranthropus" and Homo in the Mid-Pliocene of Eastern Africa? / William H. Kimbel, Tim D. White, and Donald C. Johanson -- The hominids of Hadar and Laetoli : an element-by-element comparison of the dental samples / Tim D. White -- Australopithecine evolution : the deciduous dental evidence / Frederick E. Grine -- Systematic and functional implications of the facial morphology of Australopithecus and early Homo / Yoel Rak -- Australopithecus and early Homo in Southern Africa / Ronald J. Clarke -- Implications of postcanine megadontia for the origin of Homo / Henry M. McHenry -- Locomotor adaptations in the Hadar hominids / Randall L. Susman, Jack T. Stern, Jr., and William L. Jungers -- Functional aspects of Plio-Pleistocene hominid limb bones : implications for taxonomy and phylogeny / Brigitte Senut and Christine Tardieu

Early and Early Middle Pleistocene hominids from Asia and Africa / Milford H. Wolpoff and Abel Nkini -- Early Homo in Kenya, and its systematical relationships / Bernard Wood -- Faunal stratigraphy and correlation of the Indonesian hominid sites / J. de Vos -- What is "Pithecanthropus dubius Koenigswald, 1950"? / Jens Lorenz Franzen -- New Chinese Homo erectus and recent work at Zhoukoudian / Wu Rukang -- The phylogenetic position of Olduvai hominid 9, especially as determined from basic cranial evidence / Wolfgang O. Maier and Abel T. Nkini -- The tempo of change in the evolution of Mid-Pleistocene Homo / G.P. Rightmire -- Later Middle Pleistocene hominids / Jeffrey T. Laitman -- A review of recent research on Heidelberg Man, Homo erectus heidelbergensis / Reinhart Kraatz -- The chronological and systematic position of the Steinheim skull / Karl Dietrich Adam

A late Russian deposit in Rome : Rebibia-Casal de'Pazzi / Amilcare Bietti -- Human fossils from the North African Middle Pleistocene and the origin of Homo sapiens / J.J. Hublin -- Middle Pleistocene hominid variability and the origin of Late Pleistocene humans / C.B. Stringer -- Late Pleistocene human fossils and evolutionary relationships / Eric Delson -- A new reconstruction of the Florisbad cranium, with notes on the site / Ronald J. Clarke -- The origin of the Neanderthals / Bernard Vandermeersch -- Neanderthals and their contemporaries / Jakov Radovcic -- The poor brain of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis : see what you please / Ralph L. Holloway -- The fate of the Neandertals / Erik Trinkaus and Fred H. Smith -- Early Homo from Narmada Valley, India / Arun Sonakia -- Problems of paleoanthropological research in Pakistan / S.M. Ibrahim Shah and S. Mahmood Raza -- Ancestors for us all : towards broadening international participation in paleoanthropological research / Glynn Ll. Isaac

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