African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution
Series: Human Evolution Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 January 2000
- ISBN 9780195114379
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 254x178x26 mm
- Weight 1075 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 86 b/w figures 0
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Short description:
Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, this book provides a new synthesis of ideas on hominid evolution and will be a valuable resource for a variety of researchers.
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This interdisciplinary book interprets early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and specific habitats. It assesses carefully the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution. Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, the book provides a new synthesis of ideas on hominid evolution. It will be a valuable resource for researchers in physical, biological, or paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology or biogeography.
This volume on paleoantropology is a welcome departure from the traditional focus on the morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of early hominids. It is the result of a Wenner-Gren symposium organized to better understand early hominids within an ecological and adaptive framework. . . .The editors are to be congratulated for deomonstrating the value of bringing togeter a wide variety of specialists, including geologists, ecologists, paleontologists, evolutionary theorists and hominid systematists.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Searching for an Interdisciplinary Convergence in Paleoanthropology
Part I. Theory
Introduction
Habitat Theory in Relation to the Evolution in African Neogene Biota and Hominids
Paleontology and Macroevolution: On the Theoretical Conflict between an Expanded Synthesis and Hierarchic Punctuationism
The Autocatalytic Nature of Hominid Evolution in African Plio-Pleistocene Environments
In Search of Paleohominid Community Ecology
Evolution in the African Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna: Correlation and Causation
Part II. Geology, Ecology, and Biogeography
Introduction
Cenozoic Climate Change
Landforms, Climate, Ecogeographic Mosaics, and the Potential for Hominine Diversity in Pliocene Africa
Ecological Links between African Savanna Environments, Climate Change, and Early Hominid Evolution
Evolutionary Processes Implicit in Distribution Patterns of Modern African Mammals
Part III. Fossil Faunas
Introduction
Biogeography, Dietary Specialization, and the Diversification of African Plio-Pleistocene Monkeys
Toward an Evolutionary History of African Hipparionine Horses
Suid Paleoecology and Habitat Preferences at African Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominid Localities
Of Mice and Men: Evolution in East and South Africa during Plio-Pleistocene Times
Relationships between East and South African Mammal Faunas
Part IV. Hominid Evolution
Introduction
Basin Evolution, Sedimentary Dynamics, and Hominid Habitats in East Africa: An Ecosystem Approach
African Miocene Environments and the Transition to Early Hominines
Plio-Pleistocene Floral Context and Habitat Preferences of Sympatric Hominid Species in East Africa
Grades among the African Early Hominids
Evolutionary Geography of Pliocene African Hominids
Early Hominid Dental Development and Climate Change
Habitat Specificity and Early Hominid Craniodental Ecomorphology
Appendix: A Locality-based Listing of African Plio-Pleistocene Mammals
Glossary
References Cited
Taxon Index
Subject Index
