Handbook of Paleoanthropology
This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in paleoanthropology. A baseline storehouse covering the full extent of current knowledge, the volume features an online e-reference work that will be update...
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| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Έκδοση: | 2nd ed. 2015. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Volume 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches: Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research
- Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis (NEW)
- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
- The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology
- Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms
- Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies
- Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics
- Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective
- Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology
- Patterns of Diversification and Extinction
- Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes
- Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
- The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments (NEW)
- Geological Background of Hominid Sites in Africa
- Paleosols
- Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments (NEW)
- Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites
- Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past?
- Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns
- The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations
- Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes
- Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids
- Genetics and Paleoanthropology (NEW)
- Ancient DNA .-Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach
- Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach .-Modeling the Past: Archaeology
- The Evolution of Speech and Language (NEW)
- General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology
- Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics (NEW)
- Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone (NEW)
- Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone (NEW)
- Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives (NEW)
- Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors (NEW)
- Prospects and Pitfalls
- Volume 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins: Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence
- Molecular Evidence of Primate Origins and Evolution (NEW)
- Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene (NEW)
- Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids
- The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids
- Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids
- Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation
- Dental Adaptations of African Apes
- Evolution of the Primate Brain
- Primate Life Histories
- Great Ape Social Systems
- Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition
- The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees
- Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances
- Primate Intelligence
- Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective (NEW)
- Volume 3: Phylogeny of Hominins: Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae
- Defining Hominidae
- Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
- Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins
- Origin of Bipedal Locomotion
- The Evolution of the Hominid Brain (NEW)
- Analyzing Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach
- Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach
- The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids
- The Species and Diversity of Australopiths
- Defining the Genus Homo
- The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils
- Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries
- Defining Homo erectus (NEW)
- Later Middle Pleistocene Homo
- Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries
- Homo floresiensis (NEW)
- Origin of Modern Humans
- Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins
- Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories (NEW)
- Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia
- Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology
- Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia
- Evolution of Religion (NEW)
- Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology.
