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Human Paleontology and Prehistory

Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak

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Editors:
  1. Assaf Marom

    1. Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv University Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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  2. Erella Hovers

    1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel

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  • Maximizes understanding of fundamental processes in human evolution
  • Provides an archaeological perspective on Neanderthals and their contemporaries
  • Highlights the importance of human evolutionary studies for 21st century medical professionals and physicians
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Why Was Human Evolution So Rapid?

    • Ian Tattersall
    Pages 1-9

  3. Wallace’s Controversy with Darwin on Man’s Mental Evolution, on the Position of the Natives in Human Evolution, and His Anticipation of Cultural Evolution, as Distinct from Biological Evolution

    • Joseph Neumann
    Pages 11-20

  4. Man’s Place in Past and Future Evolution: A Historical Survey of Remarkable Ideas

    • David Wool
    Pages 21-29

  5. The Paleoecology of the Upper Ndolanya Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania, and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution

    • Terry Harrison
    Pages 31-44

  6. The Australopithecine Brain: Controversies Perpetual

    • Ralph L. Holloway
    Pages 45-52

  7. Posture, Locomotion and Bipedality: The Case of the Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri)

    • Matt Cartmill, Kaye Brown
    Pages 53-70

  8. Canine Height and Jaw Gape in Catarrhines with Reference to Canine Reduction in Early Hominins

    • William L. Hylander
    Pages 71-93

  9. Paranthropus: Where Do Things Stand?

    • Bernard Wood, Kes Schroer
    Pages 95-107

  10. Feeding Behavior and Diet in Paranthropus boisei: The Limits of Functional Inference from the Mandible

    • David J. Daegling, Frederick E. Grine
    Pages 109-125

  11. Aspects of Mandibular Ontogeny in Australopithecus afarensis

    • Halszka Glowacka, William H. Kimbel, Donald C. Johanson
    Pages 127-144

  12. Middle Pleistocene Homo Crania from Broken Hill and Petralona: Morphology, Metric Comparisons, and Evolutionary Relationships

    • G. Philip Rightmire
    Pages 145-159

  13. Thermoregulation in Homo erectus and the Neanderthals: A Reassessment Using a Segmented Model

    • Mark Collard, Alan Cross
    Pages 161-174

  14. Behavioral Differences Between Near Eastern Neanderthals and the Early Modern Humans from Skhul and Qafzeh: An Assessment Based on Comparative Samples of Holocene Humans

    • Osbjorn M. Pearson, Vitale S. Sparacello
    Pages 175-186

  15. The Acheulo-Yabrudian – Early Middle Paleolithic Sequence of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

    • Mina Weinstein-Evron, Yossi Zaidner
    Pages 187-201

  16. A 3-D Look at the Tabun C2 Jaw

    • Katerina Harvati, Elisabeth Nicholson Lopez
    Pages 203-213

  17. The Dentition of the Earliest Modern Humans: How ‘Modern’ Are They?

    • Shara E. Bailey, Timothy D. Weaver, Jean-Jacques Hublin
    Pages 215-232

  18. Talking Hyoids and Talking Neanderthals

    • David W. Frayer
    Pages 233-237

  19. 3D Reconstruction of Spinal Posture of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal

    • Ella Been, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Patricia A. Kramer, Alon Barash
    Pages 239-251

  20. Brother or Other: The Place of Neanderthals in Human Evolution

    • Rachel Caspari, Karen R. Rosenberg, Milford H. Wolpoff
    Pages 253-271
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About this book

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).​ ​The volume presents a collection of original papers contributed by many of Yoel's friends and colleagues from all over the globe. 

Contributions from experts around the globe fall roughly into three broad categories: Reflections on some of the broad theoretical questions of evolution, and especially about human evolution; the early hominins, with special emphasis on Australopithecus afarensis and Paranthropus; and the Neanderthals, that contentious group of our closest extinct relatives. Within and across these categories, nearly every paper addresses combinations of methodological, analytical and theoretical questions that are pertinent to the whole human evolutionary time span. This book will appeal most to scholars and advanced students in paleoanthropology, human paleontology and prehistoric archaeology.


Reviews

“In summary, this book presents new and expanded data sets on fossil humans, especially australopithecines and Neanderthals. Chapter contributors read like a Who’s Who in current paleoanthropology. The illustrations are beautiful, providing fine anatomical and archaeological detail. Anatomical coverage is extensive, ranging from the dentition, cranium, mandible, and hyoid to the limbs, pel¬vis, and spine.” (Susan Cachel, Rutgers University)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv University Department of Anatomy & Anthropolog, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Assaf Marom

  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel

    Erella Hovers

About the editors

Assaf Marom is a M.D, Ph.D student at the Department of Anatomy & Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. 

Erella Hovers is a Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research Interests include understanding the Plio-Pleistocene archaeology in East Africa, the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, the evolution of symbolism and art, lithic technology, subsistence and mobility (land-use strategies) of early hominins, taphonomy and site formation processes, and archaeological theory.

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