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Handbook of Paleoanthropology

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    Chapter 1 Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research
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    Chapter 2 Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
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    Chapter 3 The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology
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    Chapter 4 Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms
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    Chapter 5 Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics
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    Chapter 6 Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective
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    Chapter 7 Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes
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    Chapter 8 Modeling the Past: Archaeology
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    Chapter 9 Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
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    Chapter 10 Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology
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    Chapter 11 Geological Background of Early Hominid Sites in Africa
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    Chapter 13 Paleosols
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    Chapter 14 Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites
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    Chapter 15 Zoogeography : Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns
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    Chapter 16 Patterns of Diversification and Extinction
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    Chapter 17 Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past?
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    Chapter 18 Hominin Paleodiets : The Contribution of Stable Isotopes
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    Chapter 19 Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids
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    Chapter 21 Ancient DNA
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    Chapter 22 The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations
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    Chapter 23 Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach
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    Chapter 24 Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach
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    Chapter 26 General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology
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    Chapter 28 Prospects and Pitfalls
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    Chapter 29 Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence
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    Chapter 32 Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids
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    Chapter 33 The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominoids
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    Chapter 34 Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids
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    Chapter 35 Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation
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    Chapter 36 Dental Adaptations of African Apes
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    Chapter 37 Evolution of the Primate Brain
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    Chapter 38 Primate Life Histories
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    Chapter 39 Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition
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    Chapter 40 Great Ape Social Systems
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    Chapter 41 Primate Intelligence
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    Chapter 42 The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees
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    Chapter 43 Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances
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    Chapter 44 Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae
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    Chapter 45 Defining Hominidae
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    Chapter 46 Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins
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    Chapter 47 Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
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    Chapter 48 Origin of Bipedal Locomotion
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    Chapter 49 The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids
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    Chapter 50 The Species and Diversity of Australopiths
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    Chapter 51 Defining the Genus Homo
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    Chapter 52 The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils
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    Chapter 53 Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries
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    Chapter 55 Handbook of Paleoanthropology
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    Chapter 56 Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries
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    Chapter 57 Origin of Modern Humans
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    Chapter 58 Analyzing Hominin Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach
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    Chapter 59 Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach
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    Chapter 60 Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins
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    Chapter 61 Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies
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    Chapter 63 The Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia
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    Chapter 64 Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology
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    Chapter 66 Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia
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    Chapter 67 Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology
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    Chapter 68 Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene
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    Chapter 69 Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective
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    Chapter 70 Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors
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    Chapter 71 Evolution of Religion
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    Chapter 72 Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics
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    Chapter 73 Defining Homo erectus
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    Chapter 74 Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives
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    Chapter 75 The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
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    Chapter 76 Genetics and Paleoanthropology
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    Chapter 78 Homo floresiensis
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    Chapter 79 The Evolution of Speech and Language
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    Chapter 80 Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments
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    Chapter 81 The Evolution of the Hominid Brain
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    Chapter 82 Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis
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    Chapter 83 Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories
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    Chapter 85 Molecular Evidence on Primate Origins and Evolution
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    Chapter 87 Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone
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    Chapter 88 Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone
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Chapter title
Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective
Chapter number 6
Book title
Handbook of Paleoanthropology
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, December 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39979-4_6
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-239978-7, 978-3-64-239979-4
Authors

Olivier Rieppel

Editors

Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Argentina 1 4%
Unknown 24 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 23%
Researcher 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 12%
Student > Master 3 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Other 7 27%
Unknown 2 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 23%
Arts and Humanities 5 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 8%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 15%