The First Humans – Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo

Chapter 1 Early Humans: Of Whom Do We Speak?

Chapter 2 Homo habilis—A Premature Discovery: Remembered by One of Its Founding Fathers, 42 Years Later

Chapter 3 Where Does the Genus Homo Begin, and How Would We Know?

Chapter 4 The Origin of Homo

Chapter 5 Comparisons of Early Pleistocene Skulls from East Africa and the Georgian Caucasus: Evidence Bearing on the Origin and Systematics of Genus Homo

Chapter 6 Phenetic Affinities of Plio-Pleistocene Homo Fossils from South Africa: Molar Cusp Proportions

Chapter 7 Evolution of the Hominin Shoulder: Early Homo

Chapter 8 Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Endurance Running Capabilities

Chapter 9 Interlimb Proportions in Humans and Fossil Hominins: Variability and Scaling

Chapter 10 Growth and Development of the Nariokotome Youth, KNM-WT 15000

Chapter 11 Dental Evidence for Diets of Early Homo

Chapter 12 Origins and Adaptations of Early Homo: What Archeology Tells Us

Chapter 13 Plio-Pleistocene East African Pulsed Climate Variability and Its Influence on Early Human Evolution

Chapter 14 Tracking Ecological Change in Relation to the Emergence of Homo Near the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary

Chapter 15 Ecology of Plio-Pleistocene Mammals in the Omo—Turkana Basin and the Emergence of Homo

Chapter 16 Biogeochemical Evidence for the Environments of Early Homo in South Africa

Chapter 17 The First Humans: A Summary Perspective on the Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo