Preface ....................................................... vii
Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Part 1: Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment
1 Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology .............. 3
Kaye E. Reed, Lillian M Spencer, and Amy L. Rector
2 Facies Analysis and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology ........... 35
Craig S. Feibel
3 East African Hominin Paleoecology: Isotopic Evidence from
Paleosols ................................................... 59
Jay Quade and Naomi E. Levin
4 Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate Change, and
Human Evolution in Africa .................................. 103
Mark A. Maslin, Beth Christensen, and Katy E. Wilson
Part 2: Hominin Adaptations and Behavior
5 Early Hominin Posture and Locomotion ....................... 163
Carol V. Ward
6 The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth: Implications
for Understanding Early Hominin Dietary Adaptations ........ 203
Peter S. Ungar and David J. Daegling
7 Dental Microwear and Paleoecology .......................... 251
Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick E. Grine
8 Hominin Ecology from Hard Tissue Biogeochemistry ........... 281
Julia A. Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer
9 The Behavior of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins: Archaeological
Perspectives ............................................... 325
David R. Braun
Part 3: Analogies and Models
10 Plants and Protopeople: Paleobotanical Reconstruction
and Early Hominin Ecology .................................. 355
Jeanne Sept
II Chimpanzee Models of Human
11 Behavioral Evolution ....................................... 397
John C. Mitani
12 Analogies and Models in the Study of the Early Hominins .... 437
Clifford J. Jolly
Contributors .................................................. 457
Index ......................................................... 459
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