Mind - Primary Cause of Human Evolution

by Merry, Clare V.

• ISBN13: 9781412054577
• ISBN10: 1412054575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
I THE BRAIN IN PREHISTORIC AND PRESENT POPULATIONS	5	(43)
HOMO ERECTUS	5	(5)
MODERN MAN	10	(8)
BRAIN: BODY WEIGHT RATIO	18	(1)
MEASUREMENT	19	(4)
BRAIN WEIGHT	23	(2)
DUCKWORTH'S GROUPS	25	(6)
COASTAL CANOE PEOPLES OF AMERICA	31	(1)
PREHISTORIC MEGACEPHALIC AVERAGE PEOPLES	32	(3)
CONCLUSION	35	(1)
CONVOLUTIONS OF THE BRAIN	36	(12)
II PELVIC SHAPE	48	(29)
DESCRIPTION OF THE PELVIS	48	(4)
TYPOLOGY OF PELVES	52	(5)
THE IDEAL PELVIS	57	(3)
ANTHROPOID PELVES	60	(2)
MALE PELVIC TYPES	62	(4)
TYPOLOGY OF MALE PELVES	66	(1)
GAIT HYPOTHESIS	67	(10)
III PELVIC SIZE AND BIRTH	77	(33)
PELVIC MEASUREMENTS	77	(3)
RADIOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF PELVIC SIZE	80	(8)
NEONATE SIZE	88	(2)
OBSTRUCTED LABOUR	90	(2)
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY	92	(2)
OCCURRENCE OF CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION	94	(5)
PELVIC SIZE, SHAPE AND BIRTH MECHANISM	99	(4)
PLASTICITY OF THE PELVIS	103	(1)
MOULDING	104	(5)
CONCLUSION	109	(1)
IV BODY WIDTH	110	(25)
BREADTH-HEIGHT INDEX	111	(2)
PELVIC OR BRIM INDEX	113	(6)
FUEGIAN PELVIS	119	(1)
SACRUM	120	(1)
PUBIC LENGTH	120	(2)
BI-ILIAC DIAMETER	122	(7)
SACRAL ANGLE	129	(4)
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS	133	(2)
V BODY TYPE, CLIMATE AND LIFE STYLE	135	(14)
THERMOREGULATION	135	(3)
THREE FOLD CLASSIFICATION OF LIFE STYLE AND BODY TYPE	138	(3)
ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS	141	(2)
CRANIAL CAPACITY AND LIFE STYLE	143	(1)
BIOCLIMATIC MODEL OF CRANIAL CAPACITY AND SHAPE	144	(5)
VI PREHISTORIC PELVES	149	(46)
HOMO ERGASTER (AFRICAN HOMO ERECTUS)	149	(8)
HOMO AFRICANUS	157	(11)
HOMO HABILIS	168	(3)
HOMO ERECTUS	171	(1)
HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS	172	(6)
HOMO NEANDERTALENSIS	178	(8)
HOMO SAPIENS	186	(7)
CONCLUSION	193	(2)
VII HUNTING HYPOTHESIS	195	(10)
THE PERSISTENCE HUNT AND HUMAN ADAPTATIONS	195	(2)
SCAVENGING HYPOTHESIS	197	(8)
VIII HUNTING METHODS AND PREHISTORIC ERAS	205	(21)
1.	205	(11)
A. THE OLDOWAN ERA	205	(6)
B. EARLY ACHEULEAN ERA	211	(5)
2.	216	(7)
A. ACHEULEAN ERA	216	(5)
B. MOUSTERIAN OR MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC ERA	221	(2)
3. UPPER PALAEOLITHIC ERA	223	(1)
CONCLUSION TO ERAS	224	(2)
IX MECHANICAL LOADING OF THE SKELETON	226	(15)
REMODELLING OF BONE AND FOSSIL SPECIMENS	226	(9)
ROBUSTICITY IN SPORTS MEN AND WOMEN	235	(6)
X CALCULATIONS	241	(39)
ADULT CRANIAL CAPACITY	243	(4)
PELVIC BRIM AND OUTLET AREA, AND BIRTH WEIGHT	247	(9)
NEONATE BRAIN WEIGHT	256	(4)
SECONDARY ALTRICIALITY	260	(15)
POSTNATAL BRAIN GROWTH INDEX	275	(5)
XI BIRTH WEIGHT AND METABOLIC DEMANDS	280	(3)
XII CRANIAL FEATURES	283	(33)
HOMO AFRICANUS > HOMO ERECTUS > HOMO SAPIENS TRANSITION	283	(2)
FONTANELLES AND POSTNATAL GROWTH	285	(6)
CRANIAL PLATES AND MOULDING	291	(5)
SUTURES AND INTELLECT	296	(14)
EXTRA AND ARTIFICIALLY INDUCED FEATURES	310	(3)
DEPENDENT OR INDEPENDENT VARIABLES?	313	(3)
XIII ANALYSIS OF HOMO FLORESIENSIS	316	(10)
XIV EVOLUTIONARY MODELS	326	(23)
MODEL FOR THE INCREASE OF CRANIAL CAPACITY OVER TIME	326	(4)
SELECTION FOR HUMAN INTELLIGENCE	330	(19)
CONCLUSION	349	(6)
APPENDICES	355	(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	359	(15)
INDEX OF AUTHORS	374	(3)
INDEX OF PIONEERING IDEAS	377