Overview
- Addresses the origin and early evolution of the human genus Homo
- New techniques and interpretations have opened up other avenues of enquiry and have led to new questions
- Is an effort to update, address and synthesize our current understanding of this significant development in human evolution
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Retrospectives and Theoretical Perspectives
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Craniodental Perspectives on Taxonomy and Systematics
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Postcranial Perspectives on Locomotion and Adaptation
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Perspectives on Development, Diet and Behavior
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Environmental and Ecological Perspectives
Reviews
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"This volume provides an up-to-date, concise synthesis of what is known about early Homo and highlights what still remains to be done.” Journal of Human Evolution, 2009
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Frederick E. Grine
Fred Grine is Professor of Anthropology and of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. He has published over 100 articles in scientific journals dealing with the subject of human evolution, and his work on the Late Pleistocene human fossil from Hofmeyr, South Africa, was named by Time Magazine as one of the top ten science stories of 2007. He edited Evolutionary History of the ‘Robust’ Australopithecines (1988, Aldine de Gruyter), and is author of Regional Human Anatomy: a Laboratory Workbook (2002, 2005, 2007, McGraw-Hill).
John G. Fleagle
John Fleagle is Distinguished Professor of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. He has conducted paleontological field work in many parts of the world, including Argentina, Egypt, Kenya, Ethiopia and India. He is the author of the textbook Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1988, 1999, Elsevier), co-editor of the Human Evolution Sourcebook (1993, 2006, Prentice Hall), and editor of the journal Evolutionary Anthropology.
Richard E. Leakey
Richard Leakey is Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University and former Director of the Kenya National Museums and the Kenya Wildlife Service. His field work around Lake Turkana, Kenya, has yielded a treasure trove of hominin fossils that has provided much of the paleontological record on which our understanding of human evolution is based. He has authored a number of books, including Origins, and most recently, The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and The Future of Humankind. He is Chairman of the Board of the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The First Humans
Book Subtitle: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo
Editors: Frederick E. Grine, John G. Fleagle, Richard E. Leakey
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9980-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9979-3Published: 09 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8233-6Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9980-9Published: 24 May 2009
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology