Human Evolution Source Book

by Ciochon; Russell L.

• ISBN13: 9780130329813
• ISBN10: 0130329819
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-31
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

Designed for readers interested in anthropology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology, this excellent resource brings together the major ideas and publications on human evolution of the past three decades. Filled with original articles that have shaped current views of this exciting field, the book spans the entire scope of human evolution with a particular emphasis on the fossil record, including archaeological studies.Themost up-to-date survey of human evolution available on the market today, the articles presented are organized chronologically, showing how debates and opinions have developed over time. The book is divided into the following sections: geological background to human evolution; the earliest hominins: biomolecular and morphological evidence; Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and related forms; origin of the genus Homo; evolution and dispersal of Homo erectus; middle Pleistocene hominins in Africa, Europe, and Asia; the Neandertals; origin of modern humans; and evolution of homo sapiens.An excellent desk reference and resource for anthropologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists, as well as others who wish to add this most informative book to their own libraries.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Authors	xiii
List of Contributors	xv
PART I Geological Background to Human Evolution	1	(30)
Stratigraphy Explained	3	(3)
F. H. Brown
J. A. Van Couvering
Cyclostratigraphy	6	(6)
J. A. Van Couvering
Geochronometry: Measurement of Geologic Time	12	(2)
F. H. Brown
Radiocarbon Dating	14	(2)
H. P. Schwarcz
Potassium-Argon Dating	16	(3)
F. H. Brown
Electron Spin Resonance Dating, Fission-Track Dating, Thermoluminescence Dating, and Uranium-Series Dating	19	(5)
H. P. Schwarcz
Paleomagnetism and Human Evolution	24	(3)
F. H. Brown
Taphonomy in Human Evolution	27	(4)
A. Hill
PART II The Earliest Hominids: Biomolecular and Morphological Evidence	31	(42)
African Apes as Time Machines	33	(5)
R. Wrangham
D. Pilbeam
Molecular Anthropology and the Molecular Clock	38	(3)
J. Marks
Human and Ape Molecular Clocks and Constraints on Paleontological Hypotheses	41	(7)
R. L. Stauffer
A. Walker
O. A. Ryder
M. Lyons-Weiler
S. Blair Hedges
Ardipithecus ramidus, a Root Species for Australopithecus	48	(5)
T. White
B. Asfaw
G. Suwa
First Hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)	53	(5)
B. Senut
M. Pickford
D. Gommery
P. Mein
K. Cheboi
Y. Coppens
Late Miocene Hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia	58	(5)
Y. Haile-Selassie
A New Hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa	63	(10)
M. Brunet
F. Guy
D. Pilbeam
H. Taisso Mackaye
A. Likius
D. Ahounta
A. Beauvilain
C. Blondel
H. Bocherens
J.-R. Boisserie
L. De Bonis
Y. Coppens
J. Dejax
C. Denys
P. Duringer
V. Eisenmann
G. Fanone
P. Fronty
D. Geraads
T. Lehmann
F. Lihoreau
A. Louchart
A. Mahamat
G. Merceron
G. Mouchelin
O. Otero
P. Pelaez Campomanes
M. Ponce de Leon
J.-C. Rage
M. Sapanet
M. Schuster
J. Sudre
P. Tassy
X. Valentin
P. Vignaud
L. Viriot
A. Zazzo
C. Zollikofer
PART III Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Relatives	73	(146)
The Australopithecines in Review	76	(14)
L. C. Aiello
P. Andrews
The New Hominid Species Australopithecus anamensis	90	(8)
C. Ward
M. G. Leakey
A. Walker
New Hominin Genus from Eastern Africa Shows Diverse Middle Pliocene Lineages	98	(10)
M. G. Leakey
F. Spoor
F. H. Brown
P. N. Gathogo
C. Kiarie
L. N. Leakey
I. McDougall
Tempo and Mode in Human Evolution	108	(7)
H. M. McHenry
Inferring Hominoid and Early Hominid Phylogeny Using Craniodental Characters: The Role of Fossil Taxa	115	(34)
D. S. Strait
F. E. Grine
Evolution of Human Walking	149	(8)
C. O. Lovejoy
Climbing to the Top: A Personal Memoir of Australopithecus afarensis	157	(19)
J. T. Stern, Jr.
Early Hominid Brain Evolution: A New Look at Old Endocasts	176	(13)
D. Falk
J. C. Redmond, Jr.
J. Guyer
G. C. Conroy
W. Recheis
G. W. Weber
H. Seidler
Diet and the Evolution of the Earliest Human Ancestors	189	(8)
M. F. Teaford
P. S. Ungar
Early Hominid Evolution and Ecological Change through the African Plio-Pleistocene	197	(22)
K. E. Reed
PART IV Origin of the Genus Homo and Early Evolution in Africa	219	(74)
The History of the Genus Homo	222	(6)
B. A. Wood
Late Pliocene Homo and Oldowan Tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member) Ethiopia	228	(7)
W. H. Kimbel
R. C. Walter
D. C. Johanson
K. E. Reed
J. L. Aronson
Z. Assefa
C. W. Marean
G. G. Eck
R. Bobe
E. Hovers
Y. Rak
C. Vondra
T. Yemane
D. York
Y. Chen
N. M. Evensen
P. E. Smith
Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	235	(8)
R. J. Blumenschine
C. R. Peters
F. T. Masao
R. J. Clarke
A. L. Deino
R. L. Hay
C. C. Swisher
I. G. Stanistreet
G. M. Ashley
L. J. McHenry
N. E. Sikes
N. J. van der Merwe
J. C. Tactikos
A. E. Cushing
D. M. Deocampo
J. K. Njau
J. I. Ebert
Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia	243	(8)
B. Asfaw
T. White
O. Lovejoy
B. Latimer
S. Simpson
G. Suwa
Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids	251	(5)
J. de Heinzelin
J. D. Clark
T. White
W. Hart
P. Renne
G. WoldeGabriel
Y. Beyene
E. Vrba
The World's Oldest Stone Artefacts from Gona, Ethiopia: Their Implications for Understanding Stone Technology and Patterns of Human Evolution between 2.6--1.5 Million Years Ago	256	(15)
S. Semaw
Perspectives on the Nariokotome Discovery	271	(14)
A. Walker
Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia	285	(8)
B. Asfaw
W. H. Gilbert
Y. Beyene
W. K. Hart
P. R. Renne
G. WoldeGabriel
E. S. Vrba
T. D. White
PART V Evolution and Dispersal of Homo erectus	293	(100)
The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo	296	(14)
R. Larick
R. L. Ciochon
Dmanisi and Dispersal	310	(11)
L. Gabunia
S. C. Anton
D. Lordkipanidze
A. Vekua
A. Justus
C. C. Swisher III
A New Skull of Early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia	321	(6)
A. Vekua
D. Lordkipanidze
G. P. Rightmire
J. Agusti
R. Ferring
G. Maisuradze
A. Mouskhelishvili
M. Nioradze
M. Ponce de Leon
M. Tappen
M. Tvalchrelidze
C. Zollikofer
Venta Micena, Barranco Leon-5 and Fuentenueva-3: Three Archaeological Sites in the Early Pleistocene Deposits of Orce, South-East Spain	327	(9)
J. Gibert
L. Gibert
C. Ferrandez-Canyadell
A. Iglesias
F. Gonzalez
New Evidence on the Earliest Human Presence at High Northern Latitudes in Northeast Asia	336	(4)
R. X. Zhu
R. Potts
F. Xle
K. A. Hoffman
C. L. Deng
C. D. Shi
Y. X. Pan
H. Q. Wang
R. P. Shi
Y. C. Wang
G. H. Shi
N. Q. Wu
Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-Like Stone Technology of the Bose Basin South China	340	(5)
Y. Hou
R. Potts
B. Yuan
Z. Guo
A. Deino
W. Wang
J. Clark
G. Xie
W. Huang
Evidence for the Use of Fire at Zhoukoudian, China	345	(3)
S. Weiner
Q. Xu
P. Goldberg
J. Liu
O. Bar-Yosef
Homo erectus and the Emergence of Sunda in the Tethys Realm: Contributions of Potassium-Based Chronology in the Sangiran Dome, Central Java	348	(9)
R. Larick
R. L. Ciochon
Y. Zaim
Homo erectus Calvarium from the Pleistocene of Java	357	(6)
H. Baba
F. Aziz
Y. Kaifu
G. Suwa
R. T. Kono
T. Jacob
Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential Contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia	363	(5)
C. C. Swisher III
W. J. Rink
S. C. Anton
H. P. Schwarcz
G. H. Curtis
A. Suprijo
Widiasmoro
A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia	368	(8)
P. Brown
T. Sutikna
M. J. Morwood
R. P. Soejono
Jatmiko
E. Wayhu Saptomo
Rokus Awe Due
Grandmothering and the Evolution of Homo erectus	376	(17)
J. F. O'Connell
K. Hawkes
N. G. Blurton Jones
PART VI Middle Pleistocene Hominids in Africa, Europe, and Asia	393	(54)
Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene: The Role of Homo heidelbergensis	396	(9)
G. P. Rightmire
The Atapuerca Sites and Their Contributions to the Knowledge of Human Evolution in Europe	405	(16)
J. M. Bermudez de Castro
M. Martinon-Torres
E. Carbonell
S. Sarmiento
A. Rosas
J. van der Made
M. Lozano
A Cranium for the Earliest Europeans: Phylogenetic Position of the Hominid from Ceprano, Italy	421	(7)
G. Manzi
F. Mallegni
A. Ascenzi
The KNM-ER 3884 Hominid and the Emergence of Modern Anatomy in Africa	428	(4)
G. Brauer
Dali, a Skull of Archaic Homo sapiens from China	432	(3)
X. Wu
F. E. Poirier
Body Mass and Encephalization in Pleistocene Homo	435	(5)
C. B. Ruff
E. Trinkaus
T. W. Holliday
Lower Palaeolithic Hunting Weapons from Schoningen, Germany---The Oldest Spears in the World	440	(7)
H. Thieme
PART VII The Neandertals	447	(62)
Climatic Changes, Paleogeography, and the Evolution of the Neandertals	449	(9)
J.-J. Hublin
The Accretion Model of Neandertal Evolution	458	(12)
J. D. Hawks
M. H. Wolpoff
Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans	470	(12)
M. Krings
A. Stone
R. W. Schmitz
H. Krainitzki
M. Stoneking
S. Paabo
Cold Adaptation, Heterochrony, and Neandertals	482	(14)
S. E. Churchill
Neandertal Cranial Ontogeny and Its Implications for Late Hominid Diversity	496	(7)
M. S. Ponce de Leon
C. P. E. Zollikofer
Neandertal Cannibalism at Moula-Guercy, Ardeche, France	503	(6)
A. Defleur
T. White
P. Valensi
L. Slimak
E. Cregut-Bonnoure
PART VIII Origin of Modern Humans	509	(92)
Modern Human Origins: Progress and Prospects	512	(16)
C. B. Stringer
A Reconsideration of the Omo-Kibish Remains and the erectus-sapiens Transition	528	(9)
M. H. Day
C. B. Stringer
Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia	537	(9)
T. D. White
B. Asfaw
D. DeGusta
H. Gilbert
G. D. Richards
G. Suwa
F. C. Howell
Multiple Dispersals and Modern Human Origins	546	(13)
M. M. Lahr
R. Foley
Models, Predictions, and the Fossil Record of Modern Human Origins	559	(4)
J. H. Relethford
Fully Modern Humans	563	(14)
R. G. Klein
The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution	577	(14)
O. Bar-Yosef
S. L. Kuhn
A Middle Stone Age Worked Bone Industry from Katanda, Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire	591	(4)
J. E. Yellen
A. S. Brooks
E. Cornelissen
M. J. Mehlman
K. Stewart
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa	595	(6)
C. S. Henshilwood
F. d'Errico
R. Yates
Z. Jacobs
C. Tribolo
G. A. T. Duller
N. Mercier
J. C. Sealy
H. Valladas
I. Watts
A. G. Wintle
PART IX Evolution of Homo sapiens	601	(85)
Multiregional, Not Multiple Origins	604	(5)
M. H. Wolpoff
J. Hawks
R. Caspari
Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory	609	(5)
M. H. Wolpoff
J. Hawks
D. W. Frayer
K. Hunley
Origins of Modern Humans Still Look Recent	614	(3)
T. R. Disotell
Out of Africa Again and Again	617	(9)
A. R. Templeton
Genetics and the Making of Homo sapiens	626	(11)
S. B. Carroll
Human Colonization of the Americas: Timing, Technology and Process	637	(20)
E. J. Dixon
Human Races: A Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective	657	(16)
A. R. Templeton
On Stony Ground: Lithic Technology, Human Evolution and the Emergence of Culture	673	(13)
R. Foley
M. M. Lahr
Glossary	686