Author: Martin PickfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Kenya Palaeontology Gazetteer: Western Kenya
Author: Martin PickfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds
Author: Hidemi IshidaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387297987
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Advances in fossil studies relating to the origin of Homo sapiens have strengthened the hypothesis that our direct ancestors originated on the African continent. Most researchers also agree that the time when prehumans diverged from the last common ancestor was in the early part of the Late Miocene epoch. Focus must now shift from determining the times and places of hominid origins to clarifying hominid evolutionary problems, such as the selective factors and acquisition processes of hominid bipedalism. In March of 2003, researchers from Africa, Europe, Japan and the United States convened in Kyoto for a symposium on Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds, an interdisciplinary effort to consider these evolutionary puzzles, to report current research and to exchange thoughts towards better understanding the relationship among environmental changes, adaptive mechanisms and human origins. This book is the result of that symposium, and includes a diverse and unique set of papers on topics such as hominid evolution, dispersal and morphology, and the origins of bipedalism.
Primate Locomotion
Author: Elizabeth StrasserPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489900926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The study of primate locomotion is a unique discipline that by its nature is interdis ciplinary, drawing on and integrating research from ethology, ecology, comparative anat omy, physiology, biomechanics, paleontology, etc. When combined and focused on particular problems this diversity of approaches permits unparalleled insight into critical aspects of our evolutionary past and into a major component of the behavioral repertoire of all animals. Unfortunately, because of the structure of academia, integration of these different approaches is a rare phenomenon. For instance, papers on primate behavior tend to be published in separate specialist journals and read by subgroups of anthropologists and zoologists, thus precluding critical syntheses. In the spring of 1995 we overcame this compartmentalization by organizing a con ference that brought together experts with many different perspectives on primate locomo tion to address the current state of the field and to consider where we go from here. The conference, Primate Locomotion-1995, took place thirty years after the pioneering confer ence on the same topic that was convened by the late Warren G. Kinzey at Davis in 1965.
African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
Author: Sally C. ReynoldsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107074037
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
A comprehensive account of hominin fossil sites across Africa, including the environmental and ecological evidence central to our understanding of human evolution.
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan
Author: Erella HoversPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402090609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6–1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.
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Author: National Museums of KenyaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Integrative Paths to the Past
Author: Robert S. CorrucciniPublisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
A multidisciplinary overview of the entire field of evolutionary studies, written to honor the trailbreaking paleoanthropologist, F. Clark Howell, and his interdisciplinary veiw of the search for human origins.
Africa
Author: John McIlwainePublisher: Hans Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
First published in 1993, this is a new revised and substantially expanded edition of a highly acclaimed reference resource that evaluates the leading sources of information (other than bibliographies) on Africa South of the Sahara.
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