Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment
1. Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology
2. Facies Analysis and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology
3. East African HomininPaleoecology
4. Tectonics, Orbital Forcing, Global Climate Change, and Human Evolution in Africa
Part 2: Hominin Adaptations and Behavior
5. Early Hominin Postureand Locomotion
6. The Functional Morphology of Jaws and Teeth
7. Dental Microwear and Paleoecology
8. Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry
9. The Behavior of Plio-Pleistocene Hominins
Part 3: Analogies and Models
10. Plants and Protopeople
11. Chimpanzee Models of Human Behavioral Evolution
12. Analogies and Models in the Study of the Early Hominins
Contributors
Index