Paleoanthropology : : Morphology and Paleoecology / / ed. by Russell H. Tuttle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AGUIRRE, EMILIANO,; BRAIN, C. K.,; CACHEL, SUSAN,; CONROY, GLENN C.,; ECKHARDT, R. B.,; HOWELLS, W. W.,; HULBERT, KATHARINE W.,; JACOB, TEUKU,; JANUS, CHRISTOPHER G.,; KHARITONOV, V. M.,; KHATRI, A. P.,; KOENIGSWALD, G. H. R. VON,; KOLOSSOV, YU. G.,; KRANTZ, GROVER S.,; LUMLEY, MARIE-ANTOINETTE DE,; PILBEAM, DAVID,; PRASAD, Κ. N.,; RIŞCUŢIA, CANTEMIR,; SARTONO, S.,; VAIŠNYS, J. RIMAS,; VLČEK, EMANUEL,; VOGEL, CHRISTIAN,; WALLACE, JOHN A.,; WOLPOFF, MILFORD H.,; YAKIMOV, V. P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Tuttle, Russell H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (453 p.) :; 12 plates. Num. tabs. and figs.

Table of Contents

I-XVI -- SECTION ONE: Modeling and Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology -- Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology -- Discussion -- SECTION TWO: Neogene Hominoids and the Emergence of Hominidae -- Observations on the Paleoecology of South Asian Tertiary Primates -- The Early Fossil Hominids and Related Apes of the Siwalik Foothills of the Himalayas: Recent Discoveries and New Interpretations -- Ramapithecus: A Review of Its Hominid Status -- Remarks on the Reconstruction of the Dental Arcade of Ramapithecus -- Kenyapithecus and Ramapithecus -- Gigantopithecus as a Hominid -- The Double Descent of Man -- Hominoid-Hominid Heterography and Evolutionary Patterns -- Traits of Discontinuity in Human Evolution -- Discussion -- SECTION THREE: New Perspectives on Australopithecus and Other Early Hominidae -- A New View of Speciation in Australopithecus -- Dietary Adaptations of Australopithecus and Early Homo -- An Interpretation of the Bone Assemblage from the Kromdraai Australopithecine Site, South Africa -- Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines -- Discussion -- Plates -- SECTION FOUR: The Fate of the Chinese Homo erectus Specimens That Were Lost in 1941 -- The Peking Man Fossils: Progress of the Search -- Discussion -- SECTION FIVE: Revised Concepts of Early Man in Java -- Early Man in Java: Catalogue and Problems -- Morphology and Paleoecology of Early Man in Java -- Implications Arising from Pithecanthropus VIII -- An Explanation for the Diastema of Javan Erectus Skull IV -- A Study on the Modjokerto Infant Calvarium -- Discussion -- SECTION SIX: Revised Concepts of Early Man in Europe and the U.S.S.R. -- Ante-Neanderthals of Western Europe -- Neanderthal Man: Facts and Figures -- Morphology of a Neanderthal Child from Kiik-Koba in the Crimea -- Palaeoanthropic Specimens from the Site Zaskalnaya VI in the Crimea -- Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects