Out of Africa I

Out of Africa I
Author: John G Fleagle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9048190363

For the first two thirds of our evolutionary history, we hominins were restricted to Africa. Dating from about two million years ago, hominin fossils first appear in Eurasia. This volume addresses many of the issues surrounding this initial hominin intercontinental dispersal. Why did hominins first leave Africa in the early Pleistocene and not earlier? What do we know about the adaptations of the hominins that dispersed - their diet, locomotor abilities, cultural abilities? Was there a single dispersal event or several? Was the hominin dispersal part of a broader faunal expansion of African mammals northward? What route or routes did dispersing populations take?

African Genesis

African Genesis
Author: Sally C. Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107019958

This book reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.

Reconstructing Paleodiets: Challenges and Advances

Reconstructing Paleodiets: Challenges and Advances
Author: Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2023-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832533868

Reconstructions of diet provide valuable insights into the ecology and evolutionary history of animals and humans in the fossil record, and the history of relationships between animals and humans. Reconstruction of past diets allows tracking numerous ecological and behavioural aspects through time and across diverse geographic areas, such as, but not limited to: trophic position, niche sharing and niche partitioning, past vegetation, migration patterns, ontogenetic and individual diet choices, and adaptations to changing environment. It also is a useful tool to track climatic change. More broadly, these insights are key to reconstructing and understanding the structure, composition, and function of past ecosystems. Multiple approaches have been proposed to infer paleodiets, including the integration of multiple proxy approaches.

Old World Monkeys

Old World Monkeys
Author: Paul F. Whitehead
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2000-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139471368

Old World monkeys are the most successful and diverse group of non-human primates alive today. Covering a broad spectrum of topics from molecular phylogeny to population structure, this book is the definitive reference work for researchers, graduates and senior undergraduate students in primatology, anthropology and related fields.