Author: Winfried Henke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-10
Total Pages: 2057
ISBN-13: 3540324747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 3-volume handbook brings together contributions by the world ́s leading specialists that reflect the broad spectrum of modern palaeoanthropology, thus presenting an indispensable resource for professionals and students alike. Vol. 1 reviews principles, methods, and approaches, recounting recent advances and state-of-the-art knowledge in phylogenetic analysis, palaeoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Vol. 2 examines primate origins, evolution, behaviour, and adaptive variety, emphasizing integration of fossil data with contemporary knowledge of the behaviour and ecology of living primates in natural environments. Vol. 3 deals with fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives.
Author: Winfried Henke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783642399787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 updated with future developments in this fascinating discipline. Often cited as the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences, paleoanthropology encompasses a vast range of techniques drawn from geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, among many others. Guided by an editorial team of global stature, the contributions reflect the best of today’s scholarship. Each volume covers core constituents of the subject: basic principles and methods, primate evolution and human origins, and the phylogeny of hominins. The editors have ensured that the entries uphold a key principle of paleoanthropology, requiring historical assessments to be updated with developing knowledge of the living world. The handbook’s first volume incorporates the enormous advances made in such areas as phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Volume II integrates primate fossil data with the vast amount that is now known of the behavior and ecology of living primates in natural environments. The third volume deals with the fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives. Paleoanthropology is characterized by its many live and unresolved academic debates, which are reflected in the heterogeneity of intellectual standpoints in this handbook. This planned diversity ensures that the Springer Handbook of Paleoanthropology is a multilayered, comprehensive companion of inestimable value to students, academics, and working professionals alike.
Author: Winfried Henke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-05-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783540338581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 3-volume handbook brings together contributions by the world ́s leading specialists that reflect the broad spectrum of modern palaeoanthropology, thus presenting an indispensable resource for professionals and students alike. Vol. 1 reviews principles, methods, and approaches, recounting recent advances and state-of-the-art knowledge in phylogenetic analysis, palaeoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Vol. 2 examines primate origins, evolution, behaviour, and adaptive variety, emphasizing integration of fossil data with contemporary knowledge of the behaviour and ecology of living primates in natural environments. Vol. 3 deals with fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives.
Author: David R. Begun
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1489900756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. The contributors present the most up-to-date statements on the functional anatomy and likely behavior of the best known hominoids of this crucial period of ape and human evolution. A key feature is a comprehensive table listing 240 characteristics among 13 genera of living and extinct hominoids.
Author: William Eric Meikle
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology makes available a set of key documents in the literature of human evolution relevant to the history of hominid taxonomy & the discovery & naming of extinct hominid species.
Author: Donald C. Johanson
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780679420606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A world-renowned paleoanthropologist and author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Donald Johanson attempts to solve the mystery of human evolution using new evidence uncovered on his recent forays into the fossil-rich regions of Eastern Africa. Companion volume to the upcoming Nova series. 175 illus. Maps.
Author: Eric Delson
Publisher: Alan R. Liss
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G. Richard Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1107011450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This follow-up to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth puts methods to use in interpreting human origins and affinities.
Author: Eugene E. Harris (Professor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0199978034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Geneticist Eugene Harris presents us with the complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome.