
African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 27. January 2000
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-19-511437-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
This volume on paleoantropology is a welcome departure from the traditional focus on the morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of early hominids. It is the result of a Wenner-Gren symposium organized to better understand early hominids within an ecological and adaptive framework. . . .The editors are to be congratulated for deomonstrating the value of bringing togeter a wide variety of specialists, including geologists, ecologists, paleontologists, evolutionary theorists and hominid systematists. * The Quarterly Review of Biology * This book is an honest attempt to pool the available information and to identify areas where the data are still insufficient. * The Holocene *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
86 b/w figures
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1123 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511437-9 (9780195114379)
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Persons
Editor
Professor, Department of AnthropologyProfessor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College
Department of Geology and PaleontologyDepartment of Geology and Paleontology, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
Content
PART I. THEORY ; PART II. GEOLOGY, ECOLOGY, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY ; PART III. FOSSIL FAUNAS ; PART IV. HOMINID EVOLUTION