African Ecology and Human Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bourlière, François; Howell, Clark F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering volume summarizes the results of diverse research on Pleistocene environments and the cultural and biological evolution of man in Africa. The book includes chapters on Pleistocene stratigraphy and climatic changes throughout the African continent; on the ecology, biology and sociology of African primate and human populations. Contributors include: C. Arambourg, P. Biberson, W. W. Bishop, Geoffrey Bond, F. Bourlière, Karl W. Butzer, Desmond Clark, H. B. S. Cooke, Irven DeVore, John T. Emlen, A. T. Grove, J. de Heinzelin, J. Hiernaux, Clark Howell, L. S. B. Leakey, I. Liben, T. Monod, R. F. Moreau, R. A. pullan, J. T. Robinson, George B. Schaller, S. L. Washburn. Originally published in 1964.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136529962
• Artikelnr.: 39998037

Autorenporträt

François Bourlière, Clark F. Howell

Inhaltsangabe

1. Karl W. Butzer , Climatic-Geomorphologic Interpretation of Pleistocene
Sediments in the Eurafrican Subtropics 2. R.E. Moreau , The Distribution of
Tropical African Birds as an Indicator of Past Climatic Changes 3. F.
Bourliere , Observations on the Ecology of Some Large African Mammals 4. C.
Arambourg , Continental Vertebrate Faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa
5. H.B.S. Cooke , Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of Africa, with Particular
Reference to Southern Africa 6. T Monod , The Late Tertiary and Pleistocene
in the Sahara and Adjacent Southerly Regions 7. A.T. Grove and R.A. Pullan
, Some Aspects of the Pleistocene Paleogeography of the Chad Basin 8. W.W.
Bishop, The Later Tertiary and Pleistocene in Eastern Equatorial Africa 9.
J. de Heinzelin , Paleoecological Conditions of the Lake Albert-Lake Edward
Rift 10. J. de Heinzelin, Observations on the Absolute Chronology of the
Upper Pleistocene 11. L. Liben , Brief Remarks on the Vegetation of the
Mountainous Regions of East Congo 12. Geoffrey Bond, Pleistocene
Environments in Southern Africa 13. Irven DeVore and S.L. Washburn, Baboon
Ecology and Human Evolution 14. George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen ,
Observations on the Ecology and Social Behavior of the Mountain Gorilla 15.
J.T. Robinson, Adaptive Radiation in the Australopithecines and the Origin
of Man 16. P. Biberson, Human Evolution in Morocco, in the Framework of the
Paleoclimatic Variations of the Atlantic Pleistocene 17. L.S.B. Leakey ,
Very Early East African Hominidai, and Their Ecological Setting 18. F.
Clark Howell and J. Desmond Clark, Acheulian Hunter-Gatherers of
Sub-Saharan Africa 19. J. Hiernaux , Some Ecological Factors Effecting
Human Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa Transcript of Discussions