African genesis

List of contributors Foreword J. T. Francis Thackeray 1. African genesis: an evolving paradigm Sally C. Reynolds 2. Academic genealogy Peter Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias Part I. In Search of Origins: Evolutionary Theory, New Species, and Paths into the Past: 3. Speciation in hominin evolution Colin Groves 4. Searching for a new paradigm for hominid origins in Chad (Central Africa) Michel Brunet 5. From hominoid arboreality to hominid bipedalism Brigitte Senut 6. Orrorin and the African ape/hominid dichotomy Martin Pickford 7. A brief history and results of 40 years of Sterkfontein excavations Ronald J. Clarke Part II. Hominin Morphology Through Time: Brains, Bodies and Teeth: 8. Hominin brain evolution, 1925-2011: an emerging overview Dean Falk 9. The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right Ralph L. Holloway 10. The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel? Paul R. Manger, Jason Hemingway, Muhammad Spocter and Andrew Gallagher 11. Origin and diversity of early hominin bipedalism Henry M. McHenry 12. Forelimb adaptations in Australopithecus afarensis Michelle S. M. Drapeau 13. Hominin proximal femur morphology from the Tugen Hills to Flores Brian G. Richmond and William L. Jungers 14. Daily rates of dentine formation and root extension rates in Paranthropus boisei, KNM-ER 1817, from Koobi Fora, Kenya M. Christopher Dean 15. On the evolutionary development of early hominid molar teeth and the Gondolin Paranthropus molar Kevin L. Kuykendall 16. Digital South African fossils: morphological studies using reference-based reconstruction and electronic preparation Gerhard W. Weber, Philipp Gunz, Simon Neubauer, Philipp Mitteroecker and Fred L. Bookstein Part III. Modern Human Origins: Patterns, and Processes: 17. Body size in African Middle Pleistocene Homo Steven E. Churchill, Lee R. Berger, Adam Hartstone-Rose and Headman Zondo 18. The African origin of recent humanity Milford H. Wolpoff and Sang-Hee Lee 19. Assimilation and modern human origins in the African peripheries Fred H. Smith, Vance T. Hutchinson and Ivor Jankovic 20. Patterns of Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa and the emergence of modern humans Emma Mbua and Gunter Brauer 21. Integration of the genetic, anatomical, and archaeological data for the African origin of modern humans: problems and prospects Osbjorn M. Pearson Part IV. In Search of Context: Hominin Environments, Behaviour and Lithic Cultures: 22. Animal palaeocommunity variability and habitat preference of robust australopiths in South Africa Darryl J. de Ruiter, Matt Sponheimer and Julia Lee-Thorp 23. Impacts of environmental change and community ecology on the composition and diversity of the southern African monkey fauna from the Plio-Pleistocene to the present Sarah Elton 24. African genesis revisited: reflections on Raymond Dart and the 'Predatory Transition from Ape(-Man) to Man' Travis R. Pickering 25. Shared intention in early artefacts: an exploration of deep structure and implications for communication and language John A. J. Gowlett 26. Sibudu Cave: recent archaeological work on the Middle Stone Age Lyn Wadley 27. The oldest burials and their significance Avraham Ronen Index

Australopithecus · Biology · Bipedalism · Evolutionary biology · Geography · Human evolution · Paleoanthropology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Anthropology · Biological Evolution · Fossil hominids · Fossils · Hominidae · Human beings, origin · Physical · Social Science · Paleontology