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| Document Type: | Book |
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| ISBN: | 9783540324744 3540324747 |
| OCLC Number: | 180746871 |
| Notes: | Literaturangaben |
| Description: | XX S., S. 832 - 1346, S. 2084 - 2173 Ill., graph. Darst. |
| Contents: | Volume 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches Editorial: Paleoanthropology - A Multidisciplinary Approach (Henke & Tattersall) Chap. 1: Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research (Henke) Chap. 2: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (Huneman) Chap. 3: The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology (Menke) Chap. 4: Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms (Ohl) Chap. 5: Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics (Folinsbee, Evans, Frobisch, Tsuji & Brooks) Chap. 6: Homology: a Philosophical and Biological Perspective (Rieppel) Chap. 7: Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes (Grupe) Chap. 8: Archaeology (Haidle) Chap. 9: Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenviromental Reconstruction (Lee-Thorp & Sponheimer) Chap. 10: Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology (Wagner) Chap. 11: Geological Background of Hominid Sites in Africa (Kullmer) Chap. 12: Paleoclimate (Alverson) Chap. 13: Paleosol (Retallack) Chap. 14: Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites (Jaeger) Chap. 15: Zoogeography - Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns (A. Turner & O'Regan) Chap. 16: Patterns of Diversification and Extinction (Etter) Chap. 17: Paleoecology - an Adequate Window on the Past? (Hardt, T., Hardt, B. & Menke) Chap. 18: Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes (Sponheimer & Lee-Thorp) Chap. 19: Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids (Hemmer) Chap. 20: Population Genetics and Paleoanthropology (Relethford) Chap. 21: AncientDNA (Hummel) Chap. 22: The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations (Mann & Monge) Chap. 23: Modelling the Past: The Primatological Approach (Sussmann & Hart) Chap. 24: Modelling the Past: The Ethnological Approach (Biagi) Chap. 25: Modelling the Past: The Linguistic Approach (Comrie) Chap. 26: General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology (Macho) Chap. 27: Computer-based Reconstruction: Technical Aspects and Applications (Ulhaas) Chap. 28: Prospects and Pitfalls (Hublin) Editorial: Critical Evaluation (Henke & Tattersall) Volume 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins Editorial: Morphology and Paleoenvironment (Henke & Tattersall) Chap. 1: Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence (Silcox, Sargis, Bloch & Boyer) Chap. 2: Molecular Evidence on Primate Origins and Evolution (Zischler) Chap. 3: Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene (Rasmussen) Chap. 4: Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids (Begun) Chap. 5: The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominoids (Agusti) Chap. 6: Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids (Ward) Chap. 7: Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation (Bilsborough & Rae) Chap. 8: Dental Adaptations of African Apes (Teaford & Ungar) Chap. 9: Evolution of the Primate Brain (Falk) Chap. 10: Primate Life Histories (Zimmermann & Radespiel) Chap. 11: The Biology and Evolution of Ape and Monkey Feeding (Lambert) Chap. 12: Great Ape Social Systems (Meder) Chap. 13: Primate Intelligence (Byrne) Chap. 14: Chimpanzee Hunting Behaviour (Newton-Fisher) Chap. 15: Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances (Hemelrijk) Editorial: Critical Evaluation (Henke & Tattersall) Volume 3: Phylogeny of Hominids Editorial: Who we are, where we go? (Henke & Tattersall) Chap. 1: Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae (Koufos) Chap. 2: Defining Hominidae (Schwartz) Chap. 3: Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins (Pawlowski) Chap. 4: Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins (Vrba) Chap. 5: Origin of Bipedal Locomotion (Harcourth-Smith) Chap. 6: The Earliest Putative Hominids (Senut) Chap. 7: The Species and Diversity of Australopiths (Kimbel) Chap. 8: Defining the Genus Homo Morphologically (Collard) Chap. 9: The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils (Schrenk, Bromage & Kullmer) Chap. 10: Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries (Tattersall) Chap. 11: Defining Homo erectus: Size Considered (Anton, Spoor, Fellmann & Swisher III) Chap. 12: Later Middle Pleistocene Homo (Rightmire) Chap. 13: Neanderthals and their Contemporaries (Harvati) Chap. 14: Origin of Modern Humans (Brauer) Chap. 15: Analysing Hominid Phylogeny (Strait, Grine & Fleagle) Chap. 16: Biomolecules (Disotell) Chap. 17: Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins (Templeton) Chap. 18: Species Concepts and Speciation - Facts and Fantasies (Groves) Chap. 19: Human Environmental Impact in the Paleolithic and Neolithic (Nentwig) Chap. 20: The Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia (Turner II & Scott) Chap. 21: Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology (Toth & Schick) Chap. 22: The Network of Brain, Body, Language, and Culture (Mithen) Chap. 23: An Overview of the Patterns of Behavioural Change in Africa and Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (Conard) Chap. 24: Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics - Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology (Weingarten & Gutmann) Synopsis: Homo: primus inter pares (Henke & Tattersall) |
| Series Title: | Handbook of paleoanthropology, / Winfried Henke ... (eds.). In collaboration with Thorolf Hart ; Vol. 2; Springer reference; Handbook of paleoanthropology / Winfried Henke ... (eds.). In collaboration with Thorolf Hart, Vol. 2 |
| Responsibility: | Winfried Henke ; Ian Tattersall (ed.). In collab. with Thorolf Hardt |
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From the testimonials "... yesterday I received a copy of your Handbook of Paleoanthropology. I just want to congratulate you for doing such a great job. I think there is nothing comparably detailed in our field covering so many aspects as this handbook does. When I started reading in many of the chapters yesterday I couldn't stop because it was so exciting to read about all these latest views and conclusions of our colleagues regarding so many interesting points. ..." (Prof. Dr. Gunter Brauer, Universitat Hamburg) Read more...
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Masterpiece of Mainstream Paleoanthropology
This Handbook of Paleoanthropology is an exhaustive inventory by leading experts of all known aspects of the field. Most contributions are well-written in an accessable language – albeit with the "normal" first-edition misspellings, e.g. Sahlenathropus (p.1364) and my own surname (pp.1402, 1418)....
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This Handbook of Paleoanthropology is an exhaustive inventory by leading experts of all known aspects of the field. Most contributions are well-written in an accessable language – albeit with the "normal" first-edition misspellings, e.g. Sahlenathropus (p.1364) and my own surname (pp.1402, 1418). The work is beautifully edited, with lots of tables and illustrations, and the editors and collaborators are to be congratulated.
My only complaint is that the Handbook reflects the state of the art of mainstream anthropology, it follows and elaborates the traditional views, more specifically in the treatment of the – in my opinion extremely important – waterside theory (pp.385, 1402, 1464). E.Vrba writes (p.1464): "The notion that wading in shallow water played a part [in the evolution of bipedality] seems reasonable given what we know about the paleoenvironments of many early hominid species", but this reflects a now-outdated view on the "aquatic ape theory" (A.Hardy, E.Morgan). Nowadays the theory can be distinguished into two sub-theories:
(1) The aquarboreal theory on Mio-Pliocene hominoids (e.g. dryopithecines, pongines, australopithecines) states that the early apes dwelt in coastal or swamp forests, like present-day lowland gorillas in forest bais, where they waded bipedally in shallow water and climbed arms-overhead in the branches above the water.
(2) The littoral theory on Plio-Pleistocene Homo suggests that the diaspora of Homo populations to other continents during the Ice Ages happened along shorelines (now usually below sea-level) where they developed huge brains, breathing control, superb dexterity, olfactory reduction, fur loss, subcutaneous fat etc. in order to beach-comb, wade and dive for shellfish and other littoral foods – and from there inland along rivers into savannahs and elsewhere.
If future editions will do justice to this waterside theory, the Handbook will be the perfect reference work for everybody interested in paleoanthropology.
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