Adaptation and Preadaptation in Hominid Evolution

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• Information

  DOI: 10.1400/39001

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/10.1400/39001
• In the same volume

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Conversion in Palaeo-Anthropology
  • Anthropo-ecological Investigation of Central Asia
  • Culture as a Human Adaptive System
  • Relationships Between Fertility, Mortality and Subsistence
  • How Human Populations Adapt
  • The Family as the Environment of Human Development
  • Plio-Pleistocene Homo
  • Chadian Australopithecines
  • Implications of Morphological Diversity in Early Homo Crania from Eastern and Southern Africa
  • The Earliest Diffusion of the Genus Homo Toward Asia and Europe
  • Patterns of Dental Development of Australopithecus africanus, with Some Inferences on Their Evolution with the Origin of the Genus Homo
  • Morphological Diversity in Middle Pleistocene Homo
  • Evolving Interpretations of Homo
  • Probable Catastrophic Mortality of the Atapuerca (SH) and Krapina Hominid Samples
  • Some Innovations and Continuity in the Behaviour of European Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominids
  • Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominids of South Asia
  • The Oldest Human Population in Europe
  • The Out-of-Africa Model and the Question of Regional Continuity
  • The KNM-ER 3884 Hominid and the Emergence of Modern Anatomy in Africa
  • Symbolism is Two Different Phenomena: Implications for Archaeology and Paleontology
  • Modern Human Emergence
  • Archaeological Evidence of Early Modern Human Occupation in South Asia
  • Diversity in the Earliest Modern Populations From South Africa, Northern Africa and Southwest Asia
  • Chronologies of Carbon and of Silica
  • Dating Bones and Teeth
  • Current Status and Prospects for Dating Fossil Hominid Sites in China
  • Radiometric Dates for the Middle Stone Age in South Africa
  • Hominid Taxon and Systematics of the Hominoidea
  • Where DNA Sequences Place Homo sapiens in a Phylogenetic Classification of Primates
  • Towards a Taxonomy of the Hominidae
  • Molecular Phylogeny and Demographic History of Humans
  • Homo Genus
  • Chemical Signals in Fossils Offer New Opportunities for Assessing and Comparing Dietary Niches of South African Hominids
  • Milestones
  • The Dietary Split Between Apes and the Earliest Human Ancestors
  • Size and Complexity of the Brain in Human Evolution
  • Neural Aspects of Aging, Longevity and Expectation of Life
  • The Parietal Lobe in Early Hominid Evolution: Newer Evidence from Chimpanzee Brains
  • Adaptation and Preadaptation in Hominid Evolution
  • The Brain and its Case: Computer-based Case Studies on the Relation Between Software and Hardware in Living and Fossil Hominid Skulls