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Title

The human evolution source book / [edited by] Russell L. Ciochon, John G. Fleagle.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Ciochon, Russell L.
• Fleagle, John G.

Description

xix, 699 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in human evolution series

Uniform Title

Advances in human evolution series.

Subject

• Human evolution
• Hominidae
• Biological Evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Stratigraphy explained / F. H. Brown and J. A. Van Couvering -- 2. Cyclostratigraphy / J. A. Van Couvering -- 3. Geochronometry : measurement of geologic time / F. H. Brown -- 4. Radiocarbon dating / H. P. Schwarcz -- 5. Potassium-argon dating / F. H. Brown -- 6. Electron spin resonance dating, fission-track dating, thermoluminescence dating, and uranium-series dating / H. P. Schwarcz -- 7. Paleomagnetism and human evolution / F. H. Brown -- 8. Taphonomy in human evolution / A. Hill -- 9. African apes as time machines / R. Wrangham and D. Pilbeam -- 10. Molecular anthropology and the molecular clock / J. Marks -- 11. Human and ape molecular clocks and constraints on paleontological hypotheses / R. L. Stauffer, A. Walker, O. A. Ryder, M. Lyons-Weiler and S. Blair Hedges -- 12. Ardipithecus ramidus, a root species for Australopithecus / T. White, B. Asfaw and G. Suwa -- 13. First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino formation, Kenya) / B. Senut, M. Pickford, D. Gommery, P. Mein, K. Cheboi and Y. Coppens -- 14. Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia / Y. Haile-Selassie -- 15. A new hominid from the upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa / M. Brunet, F. Guy, D. Pilbeam, H. Taisso Mackaye, A. Likius, D. Ahounta, A. Beauvilain, C. Blondel, H. Bocherens, J.-R. Boisserie, L. De Bonis, Y. Coppens, J. Dejax, C. Denys, P. Duringer, V. Eisenmann, G. Fanone, P. Fronty, D. Geraads, T. Lehmann, F. Lihoreau, A. Louchart, A. Mahamat, G. Merceron, G. Mouchelin, O. Otero, P. Pelaez Campomanes, M. Ponce de Leon, J.-C. Rage, M. Sapanet, M. Schuster, J. Sudre, P. Tassy, X. Valentin, P. Vignaud, L. Viriot, A. Zazzo and C. Zollikofer -- 16. The Australopithecines in review / L. C. Aiello and P. Andrews -- 17. The new hominid species Australopithecus anamensis / C. Ward, M. G. Leakey and A. Walker -- 18. New hominin genus from Eastern Africa shows diverse Middle Pliocene lineages / M. G. Leakey, F. Spoor, F. H. Brown, P. N. Gathogo, C. Kiarie, L. N. Leakey and I. McDougall -- 19. Tempo and mode in human evolution / H. M. McHenry -- 20. Inferring hominoid and early hominid phylogeny using craniodental characters : the role of fossil taxa / D. S. Strait and F. E. Grine -- 21. Evolution of human walking / C. O. Lovejoy -- 22. Climbing to the top : a personal memoir of Australopithecus afarensis / J. T. Stern, Jr. -- 23. Early hominid brain evolution : a new look at old endocasts / D. Falk, J. C. Redmond, Jr., J. Guyer, G. C. Conroy, W. Recheis, G. W. Weber and H. Seidler -- 24. Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors / M. F. Teaford and P. S. Ungar -- 25. Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio-Pleistocene / K. E. Reed -- 26. The history of the genus homo / B. A. Wood -- 27. Late Pliocene Homo andOldowan tools from the Hadar formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia / W. H. Kimbel, R. C. Walter, D. C. Johanson, K. E. Reed, J. L. Aronson, Z. Assefa, C. W. Marean, G. G. Eck, R. Bobe, E. Hovers, Y. Rak, C. Vondra, T. Yemane, D. York, Y. Chen, N. M. Evensen and P. E. Smith -- 28. Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania / R. J. Blumenschine, C. R. Peters, F. T. Masao, R. J. Clarke, A. L. Deino, R. L. Hay, C. C. Swisher, I. G. Stanistreet, G. M. Ashley, L. J. McHenry, N. E. Sikes, N. J. van der Merwe, J. C. Tactikos, A. E. Cushing, D. M. Deocampo, J. K. Njau and J. I. Ebert -- 29. Australopithecus garhi : a new species of early hominid from Ethiopia / B. Asfaw, T. White, O. Lovejoy, B. Latimer, S. Simpson and G. Suwa -- 30. Environment and behavior of 2.5-million-year-old Bouri hominids / J. de Heinzelin, J. D. Clark, T. White, W. Hart, P. Renne, G. WoldeGabriel, Y. Beyene and E. Vrba -- 31. The world's oldest stone artefacts from Gona, Ethiopia : their implications for understanding stone technology and patterns of human evolution between 2.6-1.5 million years ago / S. Semaw -- 32. Perspectives on the Nariokotome discovery / A. Walker -- 33. Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia / B. Asfaw, W. H. Gilbert, Y. Beyene, W. K. Hart, P. R. Renne, G. WoldeGabriel, E. S. Vrba and T. D. White -- 34. The African emergence and early Asian dispersals of the genus Homo / R. Larick and R. L. Ciochon -- 35. Dmanisi and dispersal / L. Gabunia, S. C. Anton, D. Lordkipanidze, A. Vekua, A. Justus and C. C. Swisher III -- 36. A new skull of early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia / A. Vekua, D. Lordkipanidze, G. P. Rightmire, J. Agusti, R. Ferring, G. Maisuradze, A. Mouskhelishvili, M. Nioradze, M. Ponce de Leon, M. Tappen, M. Tvalchrelidze and C. Zollikofer -- 37. Venta Micena, Barranco Leon-5 and Fuentenueva-3 : three archaeological sites in the early Pleistocene deposits of Orce, South-East Spain / J. Gibert, L. Gibert, C. Ferrandez-Canyadell, A. Iglesias and F. Gonzalez -- 38. New evidence on the earliest human presence at high northern latitudes in Northeast Asia / R. X. Zhu, R. Potts, F. Xle, K. A. Hoffman, C. L. Deng, C. D. Shi, Y. X. Pan, H. Q. Wang, R. P. Shi, Y. C. Wang, G. H. Shi and N. Q. Wu -- 39. Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like stone technology of the Bose Basin, South China / Y. Hou, R. Potts, B. Yuan, Z. Guo, A. Deino, W. Wang, J. Clark, G. Xie and W. Huang -- 40. Evidence for the use of fire at Zhoukoudian, China / S. Weiner, Q. Xu, P. Goldberg, J. Liu and O. Bar-Yosef -- 41. Homo erectus and the emergence of Sunda in the Tethys realm : contributions of potassium-based chronology in the Sangiran Dome, Central Java / R. Larick, R. L. Ciochon and Y. Zaim -- 42. Homo erectus Calvarium from the Pleistocene of Java / H. Baba, F. Aziz, Y. Kaifu, G. Suwa, R. T. Kono and T. Jacob -- 43. Latest Homo erectus of Java : potential contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia / C. C. Swisher III, W. J. Rink, S. C. Anton, H. P. Schwarcz, G. H. Curtis and A. Suprijo / Widiasmoro -- 44. A new small-bodied hominin from the late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia / P. Brown, T. Sutikna, M. J. Morwood and R. P. Soejono / Jatmiko / E. Wayhu Saptomo and Rokus Awe Due -- 45. Grandmothering and the evolution of Homo erectus / J. F. O'Connell, K. Hawkes and N. G. Blurton Jones -- 46. Human evolution in the middle Pleistocene : the role of Homo heidelbergensis / G. P. Rightmire -- 47. The Atapuerca sites and their contributions to the knowledge of human evolution in Europe / J. M. Bermudez de Castro, M. Martinon-Torres, E. Carbonell, S. Sarmiento, A. Rosas, J. van der Made and M. Lozano -- 48. A cranium for the earliest Europeans : phylogenetic position of the hominid from Ceprano, Italy / G. Manzi, F. Mallegni and A. Ascenzi -- 49. The KNM-ER 3884 hominid and the emergence of modern anatomy in Africa / G. Brauer -- 50. Dali, a skull of archaic Homo sapiens from China / X. Wu and F. E. Poirier -- 51. Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo / C. B. Ruff, E. Trinkaus and T. W. Holliday -- 52. Lower Palaeolithic hunting weapons from Schoningen, Germany - the oldest spears in the world / H. Thieme -- 53. Climatic changes, paleogeography, and the evolution of the Neandertals / J.-J. Hublin -- 54. The accretion model of Neandertal evolution / J. D. Hawks and M. H. Wolpoff -- 55. Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans / M. Krings, A. Stone, R. W. Schmitz, H. Krainitzki, M. Stoneking and S. Paabo -- 56. Cold adaptation, heterochrony, and Neandertals / S. E. Churchill -- 57. Neandertal cranial ontogeny and its implications for late hominid diversity / M. S. Ponce de Leon and C. P. E. Zollikofer -- 58. Neandertal cannibalism at Moula-Guercy, Ardeche, France / A. Defleur, T. White, P. Valensi, L. Slimak and E. Cregut-Bonnoure -- 59. Modern human origins : progress and prospects / C. B. Stringer -- 60. A reconsideration of the Omo-Kibish remains and the erectus-sapiens transition / M. H. Day and C. B. Stringer --
• 61. Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia / T. D. White, B. Asfaw, D. DeGusta, H. Gilbert, G. D. Richards, G. Suwa and F. C. Howell -- 62. Multiple dispersals and modern human origins / M. M. Lahr and R. Foley -- 63. Models, predictions, and the fossil record of modern human origins / J. H. Relethford -- 64. Fully modern humans / R. G. Klein -- 65. The big deal about blades : laminar technologies and human evolution / O. Bar-Yosef and S. L. Kuhn -- 66. A Middle Stone Age worked bone industry from Katanda, Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire / J. E. Yellen, A. S. Brooks, E. Cornelissen, M. J. Mehlman and K. Stewart -- 67. Emergence of modern human behavior : Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa / C. S. Henshilwood, F. d'Errico, R. Yates, Z. Jacobs, C. Tribolo, G. A. T. Duller, N. Mercier, J. C. Sealy, H. Valladas, I. Watts and A. G. Wintle -- 68. Multiregional, not multiple origins / M. H. Wolpoff, J. Hawks and R. Caspari -- 69. Modern human ancestry at the peripheries : a test of the replacement theory / M. H. Wolpoff, J. Hawks, D. W. Frayer and K. Hunley -- 70. Origins of modern humans still look recent / T. R. Disotell -- 71. Out of Africa again and again / A. R. Templeton -- 72. Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens / S. B. Carroll -- 73. Human colonization of the Americas : timing, technology and process / E. J. Dixon -- 74. Human races : a genetic and evolutionary perspective / A. R. Templeton -- 75. On stony ground : lithic technology, human evolution and the emergence of culture / R. Foley and M. M. Lahr.

ISBN

• 0130329819 (pbk.)
• 9780130329813 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004063104

OCLC

• ocm56942191
• SCSB-5384093

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries