A Companion to Paleoanthropology

List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables xvi
Notes on Contributors xviii
Acknowledgments xxviii
1 The Past, Present and Future of Paleoanthropology 1
David R. Begun
2 History 17
Matthew R. Goodrum
Part I Background to Paleoanthropology 35
Section 1 Method and Theory 35
3 Human Systematics 37
David S. Strait
4 Experimental Approaches to Musculoskeletal Function inPrimates 55
Matthew J. Ravosa, Kimberly A. Congdon, and Rachel A.Menegaz
5 Multivariate Quantitative Methods in Paleoanthropology75
Michael A. Schillaci and Philipp Gunz
6 Growth, Development, and Life History in Hominin Evolution97
Jay Kelley and Debra Bolter
Section 2 Anatomical Regions 118
7 Cranial Evolution in the Apes 119
Brian T. Shea
8 Hominid Brain Evolution 136
P. Thomas Schoenemann
9 Hominin Diets 165
Peter S. Ungar and Matt Sponheimer
10 Origin and Evolution of Human Postcranial Anatomy 183
Brian G. Richmond and Kevin G. Hatala
Section 3 Environment and Behavior 203
11 Multiproxy Paleoecology: Reconstructing Evolutionary Contextin Paleoanthropology 204
Kaye E. Reed
12 Reconstructing Social Behavior from Fossil Evidence 226
J. Michael Plavcan
13 Geochronology 244
Alan L. Deino
14 The Origins and Evolution of Technology 265
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
Section 4 Genetics and Race 290
15 Genetic Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution 291
Todd R. Disotell
16 The Genetics of Morphology 306
Richard J. Sherwood and Dana L. Duren
17 Paleoanthropology and Race 321
Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
Part II The Fossil Record 339
Section 5 Paleogene Primates 339
18 Primate Origins 341
Mary T. Silcox
19 Anthropoid Origins 358
K. Christopher Beard
20 Catarrhine Origins 376
Terry Harrison
Section 6 Neogene/Quaternary Hominoids 397
21 The Miocene Hominoid Radiations 398
David R. Begun
22 Before Australopithecus : The Earliest Hominins 417
Scott W. Simpson
23 Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus 434
Ashley S. Hammond and Carol V. Ward
24 Paranthropus 457
Bernard Wood and Kes Schroer
Section 7 The Age of Homo 479
25 Earliest Homo 480
Friedemann Schrenk
26 Homo erectus and Related Taxa 497
Susan C. Antón
27 The Middle Pleistocene Record: On the Ancestry ofNeandertals, Modern Humans and Others ... 517
Jean-Jacques Hublin
28 Neanderthals 538
Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou
29 Modern Human Origins 557
Mark Collard and Mana Dembo
30 Homo floresiensis 582
William L. Jungers
Index 599