African genesis: perspectives on hominid evolution / ed. by S.C.Reynolds, A.Gallagher. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xv, 582 p.: ill., [8] pages of color plates. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.571-582. - ISBN 978-1-107-01995-9  Место хранения:   088 | Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

List of contributors ...................................... viii Foreword .................................................. xiii J. FRANCIS THACKERAY Acknowledgements ............................................ xv 1 African Genesis: an evolving paradigm ........................ 1 SALLY C. REYNOLDS 2 Academic genealogy .......................................... 19 PETER S. UNGAR AND PHILLIP V. TOBIAS Part I In search of origins: evolutionary theory, new species and paths into the past ................................ 43 3 Speciation in hominin evolution ............................. 45 COLIN GROVES 4 Searching for a new paradigm for hominid origins in Chad (Central Africa) ............................................ 63 MICHEL BRUNET 5 From hominoid arboreality to hominid bipedalism ............. 77 BRIGITTE SENUT 6 Orrorin and the African ape/hominid dichotomy ............... 99 MARTIN PICKFORD 7 A brief review of history and results of 40 years of Sterkfontein excavations ................................... 120 L. RONALD J. CLARKE Part II Hominin morphology through time: brains, bodies and teeth ..................................................... 143 8 Hominin brain evolution, 1925-2011: an emerging overview ... 145 DEAN FALK 9 The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right ...................... 163 RALPH L. HOLLOWAY 10 The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel? ............. 181 PAUL R. MANGER, JASON HEMINGWAY, MUHAMMAD A. SPOCTER AND ANDREW GALLAGHER 11 Origin and diversity of early hominin bipedalism ........... 205 HENRY M. MCHENRY 12 Forelimb adaptations in Australopithecus afarensis ......... 223 MICHELLE S. M. DRAPEAU 13 Hominin proximal femur morphology from the Tugen Hills to Flores ..................................................... 248 BRIAN G. RICHMOND AND WILLIAM L. JUNGERS 14 Daily rates of dentine formation and root extension rates in Paranthropus boisei, KNM-ER 1817, from Koobi Fora, Kenya ...................................................... 268 M. CHRISTOPHER DEAN 15 On the evolutionary development of early hominid molar teeth and the Gondolin Paranthropus molar .................. 280 KEVIN L. KUYKENDALL 16 Digital South African fossils: morphological studies using reference-based reconstruction and electronic preparation ................................................ 298 GERHARD W. WEBER, PHILIPP GUNZ, SIMON NEUBAUER, PHILIPP MITTEROECKER AND FRED L. BOOKSTEIN Part III Modern human origins: patterns and processes ......... 317 17 Body size in African Middle Pleistocene Homo ............... 319 STEVEN E. CHURCHILL, LEE R. BERGER, ADAM HARTSTONE-ROSE AND B. HEADMAN ZONDO 18 The African origin of recent humanity ...................... 347 MILFORD H. WOLPOFF AND SANG-HEE LEE 19 Assimilation and modern human origins in the African peripheries ................................................ 365 FRED H. SMITH, VANCE T. HUTCHINSON AND IVOR JANKOVIĆ 20 Patterns of Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa and the emergence of modern humans .................. 394 EMMA MBUA AND GUNTER BRÄUER 21 Integration of the genetic, anatomical and archaeological data for the African origin of modern humans: problems and prospects ............................. 423 OSBJORN M. PEARSON Part IV In search of context: hominin environments, behaviour and lithic cultures ................................. 449 22 Animal palaeocommunity variability and habitat preference of the robust australopiths in South Africa ..... 451 DARRYL J. DE RUITER, MATT SPONHEIMER AND JULIA LEE-THORP 23 Impacts of environmental change and community ecology on the composition and diversity of the southern African monkey fauna from the Plio-Pleistocene to the present ...... 471 SARAH ELTON 24 African Genesis revisited: reflections on Raymond Dart and the 'predatory transition from ape(-man) to man' ....... 487 TRAVIS R. PICKERING 25 Shared intention in early artefacts: an exploration of deep structure and implications for communication and language ................................................... 506 JOHN A. J. GOWLETT 26 Sibudu Cave: recent archaeological work on the Middle Stone Age .................................................. 531 LYN WADLEY 27 The oldest burials and their significance .................. 554 AVRAHAM RONEN Index ...................................................... 571 Colour plate section is between pages 208 and 209.