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.
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.
* List of Contributors * Searching for an Interdisciplinary Convergence in Paleoanthropology * Part I. Theory * 1: Yves Coppens: Introduction * 2: Elisabeth S. Vrba: Habitat Theory in Relation to the Evolution in African Neogene Biota and Hominids * 3: Frederick S. Szalay: Paleontology and Macroevolution: On the Theoretical Conflict between an Expanded Synthesis and Hierarchic Punctuationism * 4: Jeffrey K. McKee: The Autocatalytic Nature of Hominid Evolution in African Plio-Pleistocene Environments * 5: Michael L. Rosenzweig: In Search of Paleohominid Community Ecology * 6: Alan Turner: Evolution in the African Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna: Correlation and Causation * Part II. Geology, Ecology, and Biogeography * 7: Jonathan Kingdon: Introduction * 8: George H. Denton: Cenozoic Climate Change * 9: Eileen M. O'Brien and Charles R. Peters: Landforms, Climate, Ecogeographic Mosaics, and the Potential for Hominine Diversity in Pliocene Africa * 10: Norman Owen-Smith: Ecological Links between African Savanna Environments, Climate Change, and Early Hominid Evolution * 11: Peter Grubb: Evolutionary Processes Implicit in Distribution Patterns of Modern African Mammals * Part III. Fossil Faunas * 12: F. Clark Howell: Introduction * 13: Brenda R. Benefit: Biogeography, Dietary Specialization, and the Diversification of African Plio-Pleistocene Monkeys * 14: Raymond L. Bernor and Miranda Armour-Chelu: Toward an Evolutionary History of African Hipparionine Horses * 15: Laura C. Bishop: Suid Paleoecology and Habitat Preferences at African Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominid Localities * 16: Christiane Denys: Of Mice and Men: Evolution in East and South Africa during Plio-Pleistocene Times * 17: Peter Grubb et al.: Relationships between East and South African Mammal Faunas * Part IV. Hominid Evolution * 18: Meave Leakey: Introduction * 19: Craig S. Feibel: Basin Evolution, Sedimentary Dynamics, and Hominid Habitats in East Africa: An Ecosystem Approach * 20: Peter Andrews and Louise Humphrey: African Miocene Environments and the Transition to Early Hominines * 21: Nancy E. Sikes: Plio-Pleistocene Floral Context and Habitat Preferences of Sympatric Hominid Species in East Africa * 22: Mark Collard and Bernard Wood: Grades among the African Early Hominids * 23: Robert Foley: Evolutionary Geography of Pliocene African Hominids * 24: Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, Christopher Walker, and Timothy Bromage: Early Hominid Dental Development and Climate Change * 25: Timothy G. Bromage: Habitat Specificity and Early Hominid Craniodental Ecomorphology * Appendix: A Locality-based Listing of African Plio-Pleistocene Mammals * Glossary * References Cited * Taxon Index * Subject Index
* List of Contributors * Searching for an Interdisciplinary Convergence in Paleoanthropology * Part I. Theory * 1: Yves Coppens: Introduction * 2: Elisabeth S. Vrba: Habitat Theory in Relation to the Evolution in African Neogene Biota and Hominids * 3: Frederick S. Szalay: Paleontology and Macroevolution: On the Theoretical Conflict between an Expanded Synthesis and Hierarchic Punctuationism * 4: Jeffrey K. McKee: The Autocatalytic Nature of Hominid Evolution in African Plio-Pleistocene Environments * 5: Michael L. Rosenzweig: In Search of Paleohominid Community Ecology * 6: Alan Turner: Evolution in the African Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna: Correlation and Causation * Part II. Geology, Ecology, and Biogeography * 7: Jonathan Kingdon: Introduction * 8: George H. Denton: Cenozoic Climate Change * 9: Eileen M. O'Brien and Charles R. Peters: Landforms, Climate, Ecogeographic Mosaics, and the Potential for Hominine Diversity in Pliocene Africa * 10: Norman Owen-Smith: Ecological Links between African Savanna Environments, Climate Change, and Early Hominid Evolution * 11: Peter Grubb: Evolutionary Processes Implicit in Distribution Patterns of Modern African Mammals * Part III. Fossil Faunas * 12: F. Clark Howell: Introduction * 13: Brenda R. Benefit: Biogeography, Dietary Specialization, and the Diversification of African Plio-Pleistocene Monkeys * 14: Raymond L. Bernor and Miranda Armour-Chelu: Toward an Evolutionary History of African Hipparionine Horses * 15: Laura C. Bishop: Suid Paleoecology and Habitat Preferences at African Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominid Localities * 16: Christiane Denys: Of Mice and Men: Evolution in East and South Africa during Plio-Pleistocene Times * 17: Peter Grubb et al.: Relationships between East and South African Mammal Faunas * Part IV. Hominid Evolution * 18: Meave Leakey: Introduction * 19: Craig S. Feibel: Basin Evolution, Sedimentary Dynamics, and Hominid Habitats in East Africa: An Ecosystem Approach * 20: Peter Andrews and Louise Humphrey: African Miocene Environments and the Transition to Early Hominines * 21: Nancy E. Sikes: Plio-Pleistocene Floral Context and Habitat Preferences of Sympatric Hominid Species in East Africa * 22: Mark Collard and Bernard Wood: Grades among the African Early Hominids * 23: Robert Foley: Evolutionary Geography of Pliocene African Hominids * 24: Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, Christopher Walker, and Timothy Bromage: Early Hominid Dental Development and Climate Change * 25: Timothy G. Bromage: Habitat Specificity and Early Hominid Craniodental Ecomorphology * Appendix: A Locality-based Listing of African Plio-Pleistocene Mammals * Glossary * References Cited * Taxon Index * Subject Index
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