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Humanity from African naissance to coming millennia : colloquia in human biology and palaeoanthropology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology. Congress, International Association of Human Biologists. Congress
Other Authors: Tobias, Phillip V. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Firenze, Italy : Johannesburg, South Africa : Firenze University Press ; Witwatersrand University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Human evolution > Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples > Congresses.
Anthropology, Prehistoric > Congresses.
Biological Evolution.
Hominidae > anatomy & histology.
Hominidae > physiology.
Paleontology > methods.
Congresses.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
Human evolution.
Prehistoric peoples.
Paleoantropologie.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Conversion in Palaeo Anthropology : the role of Robert Broom, Sterkfontein, and other factors in Australopithecine acceptance / Phillip V Tobias (p. 13-34).
  • Anthropo-ecological investigation of central Asia / Tatyana I Alexeeva (p. 35-42).
  • Culture as a human adaptive system : human ecology and culture / Janusz Pirontek (p. 41-50).
  • Relationships between fertility, mortality, and subsistence : results of recent phylogenetic analysis / Daniel W Sellen (p. 51-64).
  • How human populations adapt : their niches in time and space / Napoleon Wolanski (p. 65-80).
  • The family as the environment of human development / Anna Siniarska (p. 81-86).
  • Pleio-Pleistocene Homo : patterns and determinants of dispersal / Susan C Antón (p. 91-102).
  • Chadian australopithecines : biochronology and environmental context / Michel Brunet (p. 103-106).
  • Implications of morphological diversity in early Homo crania from eastern and southern Africa / Frederick E Grine (p. 107-116).
  • The earliest diffusion of the genus Homo toward Asia and Europe : a brief overview / Georgio Manzi (p. 117-124).
  • Patterns of dental development of Australopithecus africanus, with some inferences on their evolution with the origin of the genus Homo / Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi (p. 125-134).
  • Morphological diversity in middle pleistocene Homo / G. Philip Rightmire (p. 135-140).
  • Evolving interpretations of Homo / Bernard Wood (p. 141-156).
  • Probable catastrophic mortality of the Atapuerca {SH} and Krapina Hominid Samples / Jean-Pierre Bosquet-Appel (p. 149-157).
  • Some innovations and continuity in the behviour of european middle and late pleistocene hominids / Jan Jelinek (p. 159-163).
  • Middle and late plestocene hominids of South Asia / Kenneth A.R Kennedy (p. 167-174).
  • The oldest human population in Europe : "long" or "short" chronologies / Carlo Peretto (p. 175-180).
  • The "out-of-Africa" model and the question of regional comtinuity / Günter Bräuer (p. 183-190).
  • The KNM-ER 3884 Hominid and the emergence of modern anatomy in Africa / Gunter Bräuer (p. 191-198).
  • "Symbolism" in two different phenomena : implications for archaeology and paleontology / Philip G Chase (p. 199-212).
  • Modern human emegence : an African archaeoogical perspective / Hilary J Deacon (p. 213-222).
  • Archaeological evidence of early modern human occupation in South Asia / Virendra N Misra (p. 223-232).
  • Diversity in the earliest "modern" populations from South Africa, Northern Africa, and Southwest Asia / G. Philip Rightmire (p. 221-236).
  • Chronologies of carbon and of silica : evidence concerning the dating of the earliest human presence in Northern Australia / Richard G Roberts (p. 239-248).
  • Dating bones and teeth: the beautiful and the dangerous / Henry P Schwarez (p. 249-236).
  • Current status and prospects for dating fossil hominid sites in China / Guanjun Shen (p. 257-260).
  • Radiometric dates for the Middle Stone Age in South Africa / John C Vogel (p. 261-268).
  • Hominid taxon and systematics of the Hominoidea / Camilio J Cela-Conde (p. 271-278).
  • Where DNA sequences place Homo sapiens in a phylogenetic classification of primates / Morris Goodman (p. 279-291).
  • Towards a taxonomy of the Hominidae / Colin P Groves (p. 291-298).
  • Molecular phylogeny and demographic history of Humans / Naoyuki Takahata (p. 299-306).
  • Homo Genus : a review of the classification of humans and the great apes / Elizabeth E Watson (p. 307-318).
  • Chemical signals in Fossils offer new opportunities for assessing and comparing dietary niches of South African hominids / Julia Lee-Thorp (p. 321-326).
  • Milestones : the impact of the systematic exploitation of marine foods on human evolution / John Parkington (p. 327-336).
  • The dietary split between apes and the earliest human ancestors / Peter S Ungar (p. 337-352).
  • Size and complexity of the brain in human evolution / Francisco Aboitiz (p. 355-360).
  • Neural aspects of aging, longevity, and expectation of life / Sergio U Dani (p. 361-363).
  • The parietal love in early hominid evolution : newer evidence from chimpanzee brains / R.L Holloway (p. 365-371).
  • Adaptation and preadaptation in hominid evolution / Henry J Jerison (p. 371-378).
  • The brain and its case : computer-based case studies on the relation betwen softward and hardward in living and fossil hominid skulls / Christoph P.E Zollikofer (p. 378-384).