Interpreting the Past : : Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution / / edited by Daniel Lieberman, Richard W. Smith, Jay Kelley.

• Superior document: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series ; 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Kelley, Jay,; Lieberman, Daniel,; Smith, Richard W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume, published in honor of the occasion of David Pilbeam's 65th birthday, covers major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution, mostly from the Miocene to the present. The papers emphasize novel interpretations of several key areas of longstanding interest and importance, including Miocene biogeography and hominoid evolution, the origins of hominids, and new interpretations of the hominid fossil record. In terms of content, most of the papers tackle key issues in the evolution of hominoids and hominids in terms of systematic paleoenvironmental and behavioral questions. More broadly, however, the papers explore the epistemological problems of how one interprets the past from the available data.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Estimating Hominoid Phylogeny from Morphological Data: Character Choice, Phylogenetic Signal and Postcranial Data -- 2 The Napak Hominoid: Still Proconsul major -- 3 Testing Models of Faunal Turnover with Neogene Mammals from Pakistan -- 4 The Paleoenvironmental Context of Siwalik Miocene Vertebrate Localities -- 5 Of Mice...Again: The Siwalik Rodent Record, Murine Distribution, and Molecular Clocks -- 6 New Lower Primates from the Miocene Siwaliks of Pakistan -- 7 The Last Common Ancestor of Apes and Humans -- 8 Twenty-five Years Contemplating Sivapithecus Taxonomy -- 9 Habitat Requirements and the Extinction of the Miocene Ape, Sivapithecus -- 10 Lots of Faces from Different Places: What Craniofacial Morphology Does(n't) Tell Us About Hominoid Phylogenetics -- 11 When it Rains it Pours: Legends and Realities of the East African Pluvials -- 12 Species Recognition in Paleoanthropology: Implications of Small Sample Sizes -- 13 Chad, Central Africa: Searching West of the Rift Valley for a New Understanding of the Hominid Origin -- 14 The Delta Hypothesis -- 15 Plio-Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Gondolin GD 2 In Situ assemblage, Northwest Province South Africa -- 16 The Kapthurin Formation: What We Know Now That We Didn't Know Then -- 17 Apples and Oranges: Morphological Versus Behavioral Transitions in the Pleistocene -- 18 Energy Metabolism and Transitions in Human Life Histories -- Index.