The fossil trail : how we know what we think we know about human evolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Tattersall, Ian. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xxiii, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8265129 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition
- Abbreviations
- Site Map of Western Europe
- Site Map of Central Europe
- Site Map of The Caucusus and the Near East
- Site Map of East Asia
- Site Map of Northern Africa
- Site Map of Southern Africa
- Chapter 1. Before Darwin
- Time and the Diversity of Life
- Enter the Antiquarians
- Paleontology
- Neanderthal Debut
- Chapter 2. Darwin and After
- Natural Selection
- Early Disquisitions on Neanderthals
- Antiquarianism Transforms into Archaeology
- Evolving Notions of Early Humans
- Chapter 3. Pithecanthropus
- Java Man
- Changing Views of the Neanderthals
- Chapter 4. The Early Twentieth Century
- Genetics and Species
- The Hominid Fossil Record Grows
- Dawson's Dawn Man
- The "Neanderthal Phase of Man"
- Chapter 5. Out of Africa...
- Australopithecus
- Peking Man
- Back to Java
- Chapter 6. ...Always Something New
- International Acceptance
- A Prophet in His Own Country...
- African Genesis
- Olduvai Gorge
- Outside Africa
- Chapter 7. The Synthesis
- A Remarkable Convergence
- Population Thinking
- Paleoanthropology Capitulates
- Radiometric Dating
- The Record Expands and Stereotypes Fall
- Chapter 8. Olduvai Gorge
- Zinjanthropus
- "Jonny's Child"
- A Dating Revolution
- Handy Man
- Collegial Mutterings
- Chapter 9. Rama's Ape Meets the Mighty Molecule
- A New Hominid
- A Top-Heavy Edifice
- Enter the Molecules
- What Is a Hominid?
- Chapter 10. Omo and Turkana
- Hominid Catastrophism and the Single-Species Hypothesis
- The Omo and Ethiopia
- Koobi Fora and the Turkana Basin
- The Artifactual Record
- More from Koobi Fora
- Chapter 11. Hadar, Lucy, and Laetoli
- Hadar, Lucy, and the First Family
- Bodo and Laetoli
- One Species or Two?
- A Stem Hominid?
- Bipeds and Climbers?
- Why Bipedality?
- Chapter 12. Theory Intrudes
- Phyletic Gradualism or Punctuated Equilibria?
- Reluctant Acceptance
- Reconstructing Phylogeny
- Scenarios and Trees
- Chapter 13. Eurasia and Africa: The Record Grows
- The Chinese Record
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Complex Lifeways
- Archaeological Transition
- East and South
- Chapter 14. Turkana and Olduvai-Again
- The "Turkana Boy"
- Back to Olduvai
- The Unthinkable Thought
- The Black Skull
- Graciles and Robusts
- Faunal Turnover
- Chapter 15. The Caveman Vanishes
- Understanding the Caves
- Diverse Records
- A Complex Picture
- Experimental Archaeology
- Other Influences
- The Neanderthal View of the World
- Chapter 16. Candelabras and Continuity
- The Multiregional Model
- The Diversity Perspective
- A Single Origin
- The Mighty Mitochondrion
- Refinements in Dating
- Levantine Coexistence
- Chapter 17. Another Fin de Siecle
- Diet and Isotopes
- Neanderthal Environmental Preferences
- The Neanderthal Body
- DNA from Neanderthals
- Hybrid Red Herrings
- High-Tech Morphometry
- Atapuerca: A Fossil Cornucopia
- Diversity Among Early Europeans
- Out of Africa for the First Time
- Moving East
- "African Homo erectus": More Diversity?
- Early Homo sapiens?
- Evo-Devo
- A "Human Revolution"?
- "Adams" and "Eves"
- The Mysterious Hominid of Flores
- Chapter 18. Back to the Beginning
- A Veritable Menu of Earliest Hominids
- Millennium Man
- Sahelanthropus
- Back to Kenya
- More Entrants
- Hadar Again
- A Tale of Two Skeletons
- A New "Robust"
- Isotopes Again
- New Australopiths from Ethiopia
- Homo Revisited
- Prospects
- Chapter 19. So, Where Are We?
- Systematics-The Key to Understanding the Hominids
- Becoming Human
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
