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.
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Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
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Anthropology.
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Evolution -- Congresses.
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Hominids -- Anatomy -- Congresses.
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Hominids -- Physiology -- Congresses.
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Ethnology.
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Human beings.
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Human evolution -- Congresses.
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Paleontology -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Tobias, Phillip V.
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International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology. Congress (4th : 1998 : Sun City, South Africa)
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International Association of Human Biologists. Congress (1998 : Sun City, South Africa)
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LC no. |
2001367248 |
ISBN |
1868143740 |
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8884530032 |
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