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.
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"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." -- The Quarterly Review of Biology
"This book is an honest attempt to pool the available information and to identify areas where the data are still insufficient." The Holocene
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Timothy G. Bromage is at Hunter College. Friedmann Schrenk is at Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt.
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In 1967 the International Omo Research Expedition was founded by three "big names" of our scientific community-Camille Arambourg, honoray professor of Paleontology at the Paris National Museum of Natural History, Louis Leakey, honorary director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Francis Clark Howell, professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
appositional striae, imbricational striae, autocatalytic evolution, scansorial species, enamel microstructural characteristics, hominid biodiversity, microanatomical characteristics, suid taxa, total striae, nasal retraction, articular width, floral biomass, stable carbon isotopic values, maximum crown height, correspondence analysis diagram, large carnivore guild, facial fossae, shear crests, first appearance data, preorbital fossa, hipparionine horses, dietary guilds, nasal notch, lateral enamel, savanna taxa Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, South Africa, North Atlantic, Old World, Late Pleistocene, South West Arid, Early Pleistocene, High Africa, Rift Valley, Koobi Fora, Somali Arid, Early Miocene, Northern Hemisphere, Turkana Basin, Red Queen, Ramirez Rozzi, Olduvai Gorge, Somali-Masai Somali-Masai, Wenner-Gren Foundation, East Antarctica, Olduvai Bed, Tugen Hills, African Plio-Pleistocene, Omo Shungura, Friedemann Schrenk New!
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In 1967 the International Omo Research Expedition was founded by three "big names" of our scientific community-Camille Arambourg, honoray professor of Paleontology at the Paris National Museum of Natural History, Louis Leakey, honorary director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Francis Clark Howell, professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
appositional striae, imbricational striae, autocatalytic evolution, scansorial species, enamel microstructural characteristics, hominid biodiversity, microanatomical characteristics, suid taxa, total striae, nasal retraction, articular width, floral biomass, stable carbon isotopic values, maximum crown height, correspondence analysis diagram, large carnivore guild, facial fossae, shear crests, first appearance data, preorbital fossa, hipparionine horses, dietary guilds, nasal notch, lateral enamel, savanna taxa Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, South Africa, North Atlantic, Old World, Late Pleistocene, South West Arid, Early Pleistocene, High Africa, Rift Valley, Koobi Fora, Somali Arid, Early Miocene, Northern Hemisphere, Turkana Basin, Red Queen, Ramirez Rozzi, Olduvai Gorge, Somali-Masai Somali-Masai, Wenner-Gren Foundation, East Antarctica, Olduvai Bed, Tugen Hills, African Plio-Pleistocene, Omo Shungura, Friedemann Schrenk New!
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