African Paleoecology And Human Evolution

Author : Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009293396

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African Paleoecology and Human Evolution by Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe Pdf

Humans evolved in the dynamic landscapes of Africa under conditions of pronounced climatic, geological and environmental change during the past 7 million years. This book brings together detailed records of the paleontological and archaeological sites in Africa that provide the basic evidence for understanding the environments in which we evolved. Chapters cover specific sites, with comprehensive accounts of their geology, paleontology, paleobotany, and their ecological significance for our evolution. Other chapters provide important regional syntheses of past ecological conditions. This book is unique in merging a broad geographic scope (all of Africa) and deep time framework (the past 7 million years) in discussing the geological context and paleontological records of our evolution and that of organisms that evolved alongside our ancestors. It will offer important insights to anyone interested in human evolution, including researchers and graduate students in paleontology, archaeology, anthropology and geology.

Author : François Bourlière,Clark F. Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136529962

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African Ecology and Human Evolution by François Bourlière,Clark F. Howell Pdf

This pioneering volume summarizes the results of diverse research on Pleistocene environments and the cultural and biological evolution of man in Africa. The book includes chapters on Pleistocene stratigraphy and climatic changes throughout the African continent; on the ecology, biology and sociology of African primate and human populations. Contributors include: C. Arambourg, P. Biberson, W. W. Bishop, Geoffrey Bond, F. Bourlière, Karl W. Butzer, Desmond Clark, H. B. S. Cooke, Irven DeVore, John T. Emlen, A. T. Grove, J. de Heinzelin, J. Hiernaux, Clark Howell, L. S. B. Leakey, I. Liben, T. Monod, R. F. Moreau, R. A. pullan, J. T. Robinson, George B. Schaller, S. L. Washburn. Originally published in 1964.

Author : Francis Clark Howell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Africa
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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African Ecology and Human Evolution by Francis Clark Howell Pdf

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Author : Matt Sponheimer,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Kaye E. Reed,Peter Ungar
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457181337

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Early Hominin Paleoecology by Matt Sponheimer,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Kaye E. Reed,Peter Ungar Pdf

An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up?to?date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas. Recent advances in the field and the laboratory are not only improving our understanding of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing specialization of the individual fields of study in hominin paleontology, communicating research results and data is difficult, especially to a broad audience of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and the interested public. Early Hominin Paleoecology provides a good working knowledge of the subject while also presenting a solid grounding in the sundry ways this knowledge has been constructed. The book is divided into three sections—climate and environment (with a particular focus on the latter), adaptation and behavior, and modern analogs and models—and features contributors from various fields of study, including archaeology, primatology, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Early Hominin Paleoecology is an accessible entrée into this fascinating and ever-evolving field and will be essential to any student interested in pursuing research in human paleoecology.

Author : Timothy G. Bromage,Friedemann Schrenk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 019770011X

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African Biogeography, Climate Change & Human Evolution by Timothy G. Bromage,Friedemann Schrenk Pdf

Interpreting early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and adaptation to specific habitats, this interdisciplinary book systematically assesses the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution.

Author : René Bobe,Zeresenay Alemseged,Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402030987

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Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene by René Bobe,Zeresenay Alemseged,Anna K. Behrensmeyer Pdf

This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.

Author : Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107074033

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African Paleoecology and Human Evolution by Sally C. Reynolds,René Bobe Pdf

A comprehensive account of hominin fossil sites across Africa, including the environmental and ecological evidence central to our understanding of human evolution.

Author : Timothy G. Bromage,Friedemann Schrenk
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 019511437X

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African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution by Timothy G. Bromage,Friedemann Schrenk Pdf

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.

Author : Sacha C. Jones,Brian A. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401775205

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Africa from MIS 6-2 by Sacha C. Jones,Brian A. Stewart Pdf

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the biological development and behavioral florescence of our species. Modern human population dynamics, which involved multiple population expansions, dispersals, contractions and extinctions, played a central role in our species’ evolutionary trajectory. So far, the demographic processes – modern human population sizes, distributions and movements – that occurred within Africa during this critical period have been consistently under-addressed. The authors of this volume aim at (1) examining the impact of this glacial-interglacial- glacial cycle on human group sizes, movements and distributions throughout Africa; (2) investigating the macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underpinning our species’ anatomical and behavioral evolution; and (3) setting an agenda whereby Africa can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological palaeodemographic frameworks developed on other continents.

Author : Glynn Llywelyn Isaac,Elizabeth R. McCown
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010422692

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Human Origins by Glynn Llywelyn Isaac,Elizabeth R. McCown Pdf

Author : Hidemi Ishida,Russell Tuttle,Martin Pickford,Naomichi Ogihara,Masato Nakatsukasa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387297989

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Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds by Hidemi Ishida,Russell Tuttle,Martin Pickford,Naomichi Ogihara,Masato Nakatsukasa Pdf

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.

Author : N. Goren-Inbar,John D. Speth
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015059573413

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Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor by N. Goren-Inbar,John D. Speth Pdf

Few areas of the world have played as prominent a role in human evolution as the Levantine Corridor, a comparatively narrow strip of land sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea on the west and the expanse of inhospitable desert to the east. The first hominids to leave Africa, over 1.5 million years ago, first entered the Levant before spreading into what is now Europe and Asia. About 100,000 years ago another African exodus, this time of anatomically modern humans, colonised the Levant before expanding into Eurasia. Toward the end of the Pleistocene, this Corridor also witnessed some of the earliest steps toward economic and social intensification, perhaps the most radical change in hominid lifestyle that ultimately paved the way for sedentary communities wholly dependent on domestic animals and cultivated plants.

Author : Jean-Jacques Hublin,Shannon P. McPherron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400729292

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Modern Origins by Jean-Jacques Hublin,Shannon P. McPherron Pdf

Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search. In this volume, we bring together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa. The result is a volume that better integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate and at the same time highlights the research questions that are currently the focus of continued work in the area.​

Author : Pamela R. Willoughby
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0759101191

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The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa by Pamela R. Willoughby Pdf

A fascinating, detailed study of the origins of modern humans. Includes material from Willoughby's own research in Tanzania.

Author : Terry Harrison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048199563

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Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context by Terry Harrison Pdf

This volume 1 and its companion volume 2 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable trails of its footprints. The first volume provides new evidence on the geology, geochronology, ecology, ecomorphology and taphonomy of the site. The second volume describes newly discovered fossil hominins from Laetoli, belonging to Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus aethiopicus, and presents detailed information on the systematics and paleobiology of the diverse associated fauna. Together, these contributions provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of a fossil hominin site, and they offer important new insights into the early stages of human evolution and its context.