Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Thompson, J. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

It is generally accepted that the earliest human ancestors grew more like apes than like humans today. If they did so, and we are now different, when, how and why did our modern growth patterns evolve? This book focuses on species within the genus Homo to investigate the evolutionary origins of characteristic human patterns and rates of craniofacial and postcranial growth and development, and to explore unique ontogenetic patterns within each fossil species. Experts examine growth patterns found within available Plio-Pleistocene hominid samples, and analyse variation in ontogenetic patterns and rates of development in recent modern humans in order to provide a comparative context for fossil hominid studies. Presenting studies of some of the newer juvenile fossil specimens and information on Homo antecessor, this book will provide a rich data source with which anthropologists and evolutionary biologists can address the questions posed above.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511055720
• Artikelnr.: 38196735

Autorenporträt

JENNIFER L. THOMPSON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
GAIL E. KROVITZ is Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.
ANDREW J. NELSON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Western Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction G. E. Krovitz, A.
J. Nelson and J. L. Thompson; Part I. Setting the Stage: What Do we Know
about Human Growth and Development?: 2. The human pattern of growth and
development in paleontological perspective B. Bogin; 3. Postnatal ontogeny
of facial position in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes B. McBratney-Owen
and D. E. Lieberman; 4. Variation in modern human dental development H.
Liversidge; 5. Developmental variation in the facial skeleton on
anatomically modern Homo sapiens U. Strand Vidarsdóttir and P. O'Higgins;
6. Linear growth variation in the archaeological record L. T. Humphrey; 7.
Hominid growth and development: the modern context J. L. Thompson, A. J.
Nelson and G. E. Krovitz; Part II. The First Steps: From Australopithecines
to Middle Pleistocene Homo: 8. Reconstructing australopithecine growth and
development: what do we think we know? K. L. Kuykendall; 9. Growth and life
history in Homo erectus S. C. Antón and S. R. Leigh; 10. Patterns of dental
development in Lower and Middle Pleistocene hominins from Atapuerca (Spain)
J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, F. Ramírez Rozzi, M. Martinón-Torres, S.
Sarimiento Pérez and A. Rosas; 11. Hominid growth and development from
australopithecines to Middle Pleistocene Homo G. E. Krovitz, J. L. Thompson
and A. J. Nelson; Part III. The Last Steps: The Approach to Modern Humans:
12. Diagnosing heterochronic perturbations in the craniofacial evolution of
Homo (Neandertals and modern humans) and Pan (P. troglodytes and P.
paniscus) F. L. Williams, L. R. Godfrey and M. R. Sutherland; 13. Shape and
growth differences between Neandertals and modern humans: grounds for a
species-level distinction? G. E. Krovitz; 14. Ontogenetic patterning and
phylogenetic significance of mental foramen number and position in the
evolution of Upper Pleistocene Homo sapiens H. Coqueugniot and N.
Minugh-Purvis; 15. A new approach to the quantitative analysis of
postcranial growth in Neandertals and modern humans: evidence from the
hipbone T. Majó and A.-M. Tillier; 16. Ontogenetic variation in the
Dederiych Neandertal infants: postcranial evidence O. Kondo and H. Ishida;
17. Hominid growth and development in Upper Pleistocene Homo A. J. Nelson,
G. E. Krovitz and J. L. Thompson; 18. Conclusions: putting it all together
A. J. Nelson, J. L. Thompson and G. E. Krovitz; Index.