A Companion to Paleoanthropology (PDF)

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

David Begun is Professor in the Department of Anthropology,University of Toronto. A paleoanthropologist with 30 years ofexperience in the analysis of fossil apes, Begun's currentresearch focuses on the relationships between European and Africanfossil and living great apes and the origin of the African apes andhumans. He has published numerous articles and book chapterson that topic, and on the description and analysis of fossils fromEurope, Asia, and Africa.

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