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1 online resource (624 pages) |
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Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Part I. Studies of the Craniodental Evidence; Chapter 1. Enamel Thickness and Development in Australopithecus and Paranthropus; Chapter 2. Growth of Teeth and Development of the Dentition in Paranthropus; Chapter 3. Implications of In Vivo Experiments for Interpreting the Functional Significance of " Robust" Australopithecine Jaws; Chapter 4. Enlarged Occipital/Marginal Sinuses and Emissary Foramina: Their Significance in Hominid Evolution |
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Chapter 5. "Robust" Australopithecine Brain Endocasts: Some Preliminary ObservationsChapter 6. Growth Processes in the Cranial Base of Hominoids and Their Bearing on Morphological Similarities that Exist in the Cranial Base of Homo and Paranthropus; Part II. Studies of the Postcranial Evidence; Chapter 7. New Estimates of Body Size in Australopithecines; Chapter 8. Associated Cranial and Postcranial Bones of Australopithecus boisei; Chapter 9. New Estimates of Body Weight in Early Hominids and Their Significance to Encephalization and Megadontia in " Robust" Australopithecines |
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Chapter 10. New Postcranial Remains from Swartkrans and Their Bearing on the Functional Morphology and Behavior of Paranthropus robustusPart III. Studies of Variation and Taxonomy; Chapter 11. Variation, Sexual Dimorphism and the Taxonomy of Australopithecus; Chapter 12. On Variation in the Masticatory System of Australopithecus boisei; Chapter 13. Evolution of the "Robust" Australopithecines in the Omo Succession: Evidence from Mandibular Premolar Morphology |
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Chapter 14. New Craniodental Fossils of Paranthropus from the Swartkrans Formation and Their Significance in " Robust" Australopithecine EvolutionPart IV. Studies of Evolutionary Relationships; Chapter 15. The Evolution of Australopithecus boisei; Chapter 16. Implications of KNM-WT 17000 for the Evolution of "Robust" Australopithecus; Chapter 17. Are "Robust" Australopithecines a Monophyletic Group?; Chapter 18. A New Australopithecus Cranium from Sterkfontein and Its Bearing on the Ancestry of Paranthropus |
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Chapter 19. Numerous Apparently Synapomorphic Features in Australopithecus robustus, Australopithecus boisei and Homo habilis: Support for the Skelton-McHenry-Drawhorn HypothesisPart V. Studies of Paleogeography, Paleoecology and Natural History; Chapter 20. New Information from the Swartkrans Cave of Relevance to "Robust" Australopithecines; Chapter 21. Chronology of South African Australopith Site Units; Chapter 22. "Robust" Hominids and Plio-Pleistocene Paleogeography of the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia |
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Chapter 23. Habitat Preference and Paleoecology of Australopithecus boisei in Eastern Africa |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Australopithecines -- Congresses
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Paranthropus -- Congresses
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Australopithecines
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Paranthropus
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grine, Frederick
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| ISBN |
9781351521253 |
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135152125X |
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