Human biology and the origins of Homo

Introduction: Human biology and the origins of Homo : an introduction to supplement 6 / Leslie C. Aiello and Susan C. Antón -- Early Homo : who, when, and where / Susan C. Antón -- Environmental and behavioral evidence pertaining to the evolution of early Homo / Richard Potts -- Dental evidence for...

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Körperschaft: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Aiello, Leslie (HerausgeberIn), Antón, Susan C. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. Univ. of Chicago Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:Current anthropology / Supplement 6
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Human biology and the origins of Homo : an introduction to supplement 6 / Leslie C. Aiello and Susan C. Antón -- Early Homo : who, when, and where / Susan C. Antón -- Environmental and behavioral evidence pertaining to the evolution of early Homo / Richard Potts -- Dental evidence for the reconstruction of diet in African early Homo / Peter S. Ungar -- Body size, body shape, and the circumscription of the genus Homo / Trenton W. Holliday -- Ecological energetics in early Homo / Herman Pontzer -- The effects of mortality, subsistence, and ecology on human adult height and implications for Homo evolution / Andrea Bamberg Migliano and Myrtille Guillon -- Plasticity in human life history strategy : implications for contemporary human variation and the evolution of genus Homo / Christopher W. Kuzawa and Jared M. Bragg -- Conditions for evolution of small adult body size in southern Africa / Susan Pfeiffer -- Growth, development, and life history throughout the evolution of Homo / Gary T. Schwartz -- Body size, size variation, and sexual size dimorphism in early Homo / J. Michael Plavcan -- Male life history, reproductive effort, and the evolution of the genus Homo : new directions and perspectives / Richard G. Bribiescas, Peter T. Ellison, and Peter B. Gray -- Evolution of cooperation among mammalian carnivores and its relevance to hominin evolution / Jennifer E. Smith, Eli M. Swanson, Daphna Reed, and Kay E. Holekamp -- How our ancestors broke through the gray ceiling : comparative evidence for cooperative breeding in early Homo / Karin Isler and Carel P. van Schaik -- The capital economy in hominin evolution : how adipose tissue and social relationships confer phenotypic flexibility and resilience in stochastic environments / Jonathan C.K. Wells -- Origins and evolution of genus Homo : new perspectives / Susan C. Antón and J. Josh Snodgrass
Beschreibung:Caption title. - From a Wenner-Gren-sponsored symposium held at the Tivoli Palácio de Seteais in Sintra, Portugal, March 4-11, 2011. - Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:S. S267 - S496
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