Handbook of Paleoanthropology [Elektronisk resurs] / Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, editors.

• Part I Principles, Methods, and Approaches -- Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research / Winfried Henke -- Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis / Franz M. Wuketits -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus / Philippe Huneman -- The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology / Peter R. Menke -- Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms / Michael Ohl -- Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies / Colin Groves -- Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics / Kaila E. Folinsbee, David C. Evans, Jörg Fröbisch, Daniel R. Brooks, and Linda A. Tsuji -- Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective / Olivier Rieppel -- Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology / Daniel Richter and Guenther A. Wagner -- Patterns of Diversification and Extinction / Walter Etter -- Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes / Gisela Grupe and Michaela Harbeck -- Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction / Julia Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer -- The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments / John Rowan and Kaye E. Reed -- Geological Background of Early Hominid Sites in Africa / Ottmar Kullmer -- Paleosols / Gregory Retallack -- Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments / John A. Van Couvering -- Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites / Klaus-Dieter Jäger. 
• Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past? / Thorolf Hardt, Peter R. Menke, and Britta Hardt -- Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns / Alan Turner and Hannah O’Regan -- The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations / Janet Monge and Alan Mann -- Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes / Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp -- Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids / Helmut Hemmer -- Genetics and Paleoanthropology / Jonathan Marks -- Ancient DNA / Susanne Hummel -- Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach / Robert W. Sussman and Donna Hart -- Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach / Paolo Biagi -- Modeling the Past: Archaeology / Miriam N. Haidle -- The Evolution of Speech and Language / Philip Lieberman and Robert C. McCarthy -- General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology / Gabriele A. Macho -- Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics / Gerhard W. Weber -- Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone / Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz -- Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone / Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz -- Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives / Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz and Michael Schultz -- Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors / Stefan Schlager and Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Prospects and Pitfalls / Jean-Jacques Hublin. 
• Part II Primate Evolution and Human Origins -- Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence / Mary T. Silcox, Eric J. Sargis, Jonathan I. Bloch, and Doug M. Boyer -- Molecular Evidence on Primate Origins and Evolution / Ryan L. Raaum -- Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene / Marc Godinot -- Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids / David R. Begun -- The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominoids / Jordi Agustı´ -- Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids / Carol V. Ward -- Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation / Alan Bilsborough and Todd C. Rae -- Dental Adaptations of African Apes / Mark F. Teaford and Peter S. Ungar -- Evolution of the Primate Brain / Dean Falk -- Primate Life Histories / Elke Zimmermann and Ute Radespiel -- Great Ape Social Systems / Angela Meder -- Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition / Joanna E. Lambert -- The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees / Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher -- Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, and Jutta Steinhauser -- Primate Intelligence / Richard W. Byrne -- Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective / Juliane Kaminski. 
• Part III Phylogeny of Hominins -- Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae / George D. Koufos -- Defining Hominidae / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins / Elisabeth S. Vrba -- Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins / Bogusław Pawłowski and Wioletta Nowaczewska -- Origin of Bipedal Locomotion / William E. H. Harcourt-Smith -- The Evolution of the Hominid Brain / Ralph L. Holloway -- Analyzing Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach / David Strait, Frederick E. Grine, and John G. Fleagle -- Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach / Todd R. Disotell -- The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids / Brigitte Senut -- The Species and Diversity of Australopiths / William H. Kimbel -- Defining the Genus Homo / Mark Collard and Bernard Wood -- The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils / Friedemann Schrenk, Ottmar Kullmer, and Timothy Bromage -- Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries / Ian Tattersall -- Defining Homo erectus / Karen L. Baab -- Later Middle Pleistocene Homo / G. Philip Rightmire -- Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries / Katerina Harvati -- Homo floresiensis / Leslie C. Aiello -- Origin of Modern Humans / Günter Bräuer -- Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins / Alan R. Templeton -- Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories / Michael Bolus -- The Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia / Christy G. Turner II and G. Richard Scott -- Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology / Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick -- Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia / Nicholas J. Conard -- Evolution of Religion / Matthias Herrgen -- Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology / Mathias Gutmann and Michael Weingarten. 

• 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 updated with future developments in this fascinating discipline. Often cited as the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences, paleoanthropology encompasses a vast range of techniques drawn from geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, among many others. Guided by an editorial team of global stature, the contributions reflect the best of today’s scholarship. Each volume covers core constituents of the subject: basic principles and methods, primate evolution and human origins, and the phylogeny of hominins. The editors have ensured that the entries uphold a key principle of paleoanthropology, requiring historical assessments to be updated with developing knowledge of the living world. The handbook’s first volume incorporates the enormous advances made in such areas as phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Volume II integrates primate fossil data with the vast amount that is now known of the behavior and ecology of living primates in natural environments. The third volume deals with the fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives. Paleoanthropology is characterized by its many live and unresolved academic debates, which are reflected in the heterogeneity of intellectual standpoints in this handbook. This planned diversity ensures that the Springer Handbook of Paleoanthropology is a multilayered, comprehensive companion of inestimable value to students, academics, and working professionals alike. 

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