Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ishida, Hidemi (Editor), Tuttle, Russell (Editor), Pickford, Martin (Editor), Ogihara, Naomichi (Editor), Nakatsukasa, Masato (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal anatomy.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds is a benchmark compendium of research that presents itself at a major paradigm shift in paleoanthropology. The editors offer a variety of theoretical approaches to puzzles on the place of the Hominidae, particularly Homo sapiens, among the Primates, includ...

Table of Contents:

• Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology
• Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology
• Fossil Hominoids and Paleoenvironments
• Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies
• Evolution of the Vertebral Column in Miocene Hominoids and Plio-Pleistocene Hominids
• Terrestriality in a Middle Miocene Context: Victoriapithecus from Maboko, Kenya
• Late Cenozoic Mammalian Biostratigraphy And Faunal Change
• The Ages and Geological Backgrounds of Miocene Hominoids Nacholapithecus, Samburupithecus, and Orrorin from Kenya
• Functional Morphology
• Patterns of Vertical Climbing in Primates
• Functional Morphology of the Midcarpal Joint in Knuckle-Walkers and Terrestrial Quadrupeds
• Morphological Adaptation of Rat Femora to Different Mechanical Environments
• A Hallmark of Humankind: The Gluteus Maximus Muscle
• Primates Trained for Bipedal Locomotion as a Model for Studying the Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion
• Locomotor Energetics in Nonhuman Primates
• Computer Simulation of Bipedal Locomotion
• Theoretical Approaches
• Paleoenvironments, Paleoecology, Adaptations, and the Origins of Bipedalism in Hominidae
• Arboreal Origin of Bipedalism
• Neontological Perspectives on East African Middle and Late Miocene Anthropoidea
• The Prehominid Locomotion Reflected: Energetics, Muscles, and Generalized Bipeds
• Evolution of the Social Structure of Hominoids
• Are Human Beings Apes, or are Apes People too?
• Current Thoughts on Terrestrialization in African Apes and the Origin of Human Bipedalism.