Book
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Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop (3rd : 2006 : Stony Brook University)
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| Title: |
The first humans : origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3-October 7, 2006 / edited by Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey. |
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[Dordrecht] : Springer, c2009. |
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| Description: |
xi, 218 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Series: |
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
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| Contents: |
Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus Homo begin, and how would we know? / Bernard A. Wood -- The origin of Homo / William H. Kimbel -- Comparisons of early Pleistocene skulls from East Africa and the Georgian Caucasus : evidence bearing on the origin and systematics of genus Homo / G. Philip Rightmire and David Lordkipanidze -- Phenetic affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo fossils from South Africa : molar cusp proportions / Frederick E. Grine ... [et al.] -- Evolution of the hominin shoulder : early Homo / Susan G. Larson -- Brains, brawn, and the evolution of human endurance running capabilities / Daniel E. Lieberman ... [et al.] -- Interlimb proportions in humans and fossil hominins : variability and scaling / William L. Jungers -- Growth and development of the Nariokotome youth, KNM-WT 15000 / M. Christopher Dean and B. Holly Smith -- Dental evidence for diets of early Homo / Peter S. Ungar and Robert S. Scott -- Origins and adaptations of early Homo : what archeology tells us / Hélène Roche, Robert J. Blumenschine and John J. Shea -- Plio-Pleistocene East African pulsed climate variability and its influence on early human evolution / Mark A. Maslin and Martin H. Trauth -- Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary / Kaye E. Reed and Samantha M. Russak -- Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene mammals in the Omo-Turkana Basin and the emergence of Homo / René Bobe and Meave G. Leakey -- Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa / Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp -- The first humans : a summary perspective on the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo / Frederick E. Grine and John G. Fleagle. |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781402099793 (hbk.) |
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1402099797 (hbk.) |
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1402099800 (ebk.) |
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9781402099809 (ebk.) |
| Subject: |
Human beings -- Origin -- Congresses.
Human evolution -- Congresses.
Fossil hominids -- Congresses.
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| Authors: |
Grine, Frederick E., 1952-
Fleagle, John G.
Leakey, Richard E.
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| Other titles: |
Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
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| HOLLIS number |
012047346 |
| Link to this record |
http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c012047346
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