Overview
- Comprehensive investigation and description of functional morphology of KSD-VP-1/1 or Kadanuumuu ("Big Man"), a 3.6 million-years-old partial skeleton of early Australopithecus afarensis
- Enables readers to gain an overview of the paleobiology and paleoecology of early Au. afarensis
- Will appeal to advanced researchers, educators, undergraduate and graduate students of paleoanthropology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Denise Su is the Curator of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Her main area of research is the paleoecology of early hominins; she seeks to better understand the environmental context in which early hominins evolved to better address origination, extinction and adaptation events in our lineage. She conducts fieldwork at Laetoli, Tanzania, an important Pliocene hominin site where footprint trails of Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in 1976 and has reconstructed its paleoecological conditions using multi-evidential approach. She has also studied the paleoecology of other key early hominin localities, such as Aramis and West Margin of the Middle Awash, where Ardipithecus ramidus and Ardipithecus kadabba were recovered, respectively.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Postcranial Anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis
Book Subtitle: New Insights from KSD-VP-1/1
Editors: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Denise F. Su
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7429-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7427-7Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1347-2Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7429-1Published: 22 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 82 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolutionary Biology