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Title Humanity from African naissance to coming millennia : colloquia in human biology and palaeoanthropology / editors: Phillip V. Tobias ... [and others] ; assisted by Kevin L. Kuykendall and Himla Soodyall
Published Firenze : Firenze University Press ; Johannesburg (ZA) : Witwatersrand University Press, 2001

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Description 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Conversion in Palaeo-anthropology: the role of Robert Broom, Sterkfontein and other factors in Australopithecine acceptance (8th Robert Broom Memorial Lecture) / Phillip V. Tobias. Part 1. Human biology. Anthropo-ecological investigation of Central Asia / Tatyana I. Alexeeva -- Culture as a human adaptive system: human ecology and culture / Janusz Piontek -- Relationships between fertility, mortality and subsistence: results of recent phylogenetic analyses / Daniel W. Sellen -- How human populations adapt: their niches in time and space / Anna Siniarska and N. Wolanski. Part 2. Emerging Homo. Plio-pleistocene Homo: patterns and determinants of dispersal / Susan C. Anton, Fachroel Aziz and Yahdi Zaim -- Chadian Australopithecines: biochronology and enviornmental context / Michel Brunet -- Implications of morphological diversity in early Homo Carnia from Eastern and Southern Africa / Frederick E. Grine -- The earliest diffusion of the genus Homo toward Asia and Europe: a brief overview / Giorgio Manzi -- Patterns of dental development of Australopithecus Africanus, with some inferences on their evolution with the origin of the Genus Homo / Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi -- Morphological ldiversity in middle pleistocene Homo / G. Philip Rightmire -- Evolving interpretations of Homo / Bernard Wood and Mark Collard. Part 3. Evolving Homo. Probably catastrophic mortality of the Atapuerca (SH) and Krapina Hominid samples / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Juan-Luis Arsuaga -- Some innovations and continuity in the behavior of European middle and late Pleistocene Hominids / Jan Jelinek -- Middle and late Pleistocene Hominids of South Asia / Kenneth A.R. Kennedy -- The oldest human population in Europe: 'long' or 'short' chronologies / Carlo Peretto. Part 4. Early modern humans. The 'out-of-Africa' model and the question of regional continuity / Gunter Brauer -- The KNM-ER 3884 Hominid and the emergence of modern anatomy in Africa / Gunter Brauer -- 'Symbolism' is two different phenomena: implications for archeology and npaleontology / Philip G. Chase -- Modern human emergence: an African archaeological perspective / Hilary J. Deacon -- Archaeological evidence of early modern human occupation in South Asia / Virendra N. Misra -- Diversity in the earliest 'modern' populations from South Africa, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia / G. Philip Rightmire. Part 5. Dating. Chronologies of carbon and of silica: evidence concerning the dating of the earliest human presence in Northern Australia / Richard G. Roberts and Rhys Jones -- Dating bones and teeth: the beautiful and the dangerous / Henry P. Schwarcz -- Current status and prospects for dating fossil Hominid sites in China / Guanjun Shen -- Radiometric dates for the middle stone age in South Africa / John C. Vogel. Part 6. Taxonomy and systematics. Hominid taxon and systematics of the hominoidea / Camilo J. Cela-Conde -- Where DNA sequences place Homo sapiens in a phylogenetic classification of primates / Morris Goodman, John Czelusniak, Scott Page and Carla M. Meireles -- Towards a taxonomy of the hominidae / Colin P. Groves -- Molecular phylogeny and demographic history of humans / Neoyuki Takahata -- Homo Genus: a review of the classification of humans and the great apes / Elizabeth E. Watson, Simon Easteal and David Penny. Part 7. Diet. Chemical signals in fossils offer new opportunities for assessing and comparing dietary niches of South African Hominids / Julia Lee-Thorp and Andrew Sillen -- Milestones: the impact of the systematic exploitatioinof marine foods on human evolution / John Parkington -- The dietary split between apes and the earliest human ancestors / Peter S. Ungar and Mark Teaford. Part 8. Brain. Size and complexity of the brain in human evolution / Francisco Aboitiz -- Neural aspects of aging, longevity and expectation of life / Sergio U. Dani -- The parietal lobe in early Hominid evolution: newer evidence from chimpanzee brains / Ralph L. Holloway, D.C. Broadfield and M.S. Yuan -- Adaptation and preadaptation in hominid evolution / Harry J. Jerison -- The brain and its case: computer-based case studies on the relation between software and hardware in living and fossil hominid skulls / Christoph P.E. Zollikofer and Marcia S. Ponce De Leon
Summary Includes: Chronologies of carbon and of silica: evidence concerning the dating of the earliest human presence in Northern Australia by Richard G. Roberts and Rhys Jones
Notes "1998 ... Dual Congress of the International Association of Human Biologists and the International Association for the Study of Human Palaeontology"--p. 3
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and indexes
Subject Adaptation (Biology) -- Congresses.
Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
Anthropology.
Evolution -- Congresses.
Hominids -- Anatomy -- Congresses.
Hominids -- Physiology -- Congresses.
Ethnology.
Human beings.
Human evolution -- Congresses.
Paleontology -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Prehistoric peoples -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Tobias, Phillip V.
International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology. Congress (4th : 1998 : Sun City, South Africa)
International Association of Human Biologists. Congress (1998 : Sun City, South Africa)
LC no. 2001367248
ISBN 1868143740
8884530032
ABBREV TI HUMANITY FROM AFRICAN NAISSANCE TO COMING MILLENNIA : COLLOQUIA IN HUMAN BIOLOGY & PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY
Other Titles Atti
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia