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INTERPRETING THE PAST: ESSAYS ON HUMAN, PRIMATE, AND MAMMAL EVOLUTION

Edited by Daniel E. Lieberman, Richard J. Smith, Jay Kelley 



FROM THE PUBLISHER





 This volume, published in honor of the occasion of David Pilbeam's 65th birthday,
 covers major topics in human, primate, and mammalian evolution, mostly from
 the Miocene to the present. The papers emphasize novel interpretations of several
 key areas of longstanding interest and importance, including Miocene biogeography
 and hominoid evolution, the origins of hominids, and new interpretations of
 the hominid fossil record. 
 
In terms of content, most of the papers tackle key issues in the evolution of
hominoids and hominids in terms of systematic paleoenvironmental and behavioral
questions. More broadly, however, the papers explore the epistemological problems
of how one interprets the past from the available data. 
  
ABOUT THE EDITORS 
  
Daniel E. Lieberman 
  (Ph.D. 1993, Harvard University) is Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University. 
 
Richard J. Smith 
 (Ph.D. 1980, Yale University) is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University,
St Louis. 
 
Jay Kelley 
 (Ph.D. 1986, Yale University) is Professor of Oral Biology, University of Illinois,
Chicago. 
  
CONTENTS 
 
List of Figures ix 
  
List of Tables xiii 
 
Foreword xv 
  
Preface xix 
  
Acknowledgements xxi 
  
1 Estimating Hominoid Phylogeny from Morphological Data: Character Choice, Phylogenetic
Signal and Postcranial Data 
  
Nathan M. Young, 1 
 
2 The Napak Hominoid: Still Proconsul major 
 
Laura MacLatchy and James B. Rossie, 15 
  
3 Testing Models of Faunal Turnover with Neogene Mammals from Pakistan 
 
Catherine Badgley, Sherry Nelson, John Barry, Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Thure
Cerling, 29 
  
4 The Paleoenvironmental Context of Siwalik Miocene Vertebrate localities 
 
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Catherine Badgley, John C. Barry, Michele Morgan, and 
 
S. Mahmood Raza, 47 
  
5 Of Mice... Again: The Siwalik Rodent Record, Murine Distribution, and Molecular
Clocks 
  
Louis L. Jacobs and Lawrence J. Flynn, 63 
 
6 New Lower Primates from the Miocene Siwaliks of Pakistan 
  
Lawrence J. Flynn and Michele E. Morgan, 81 
 
7 The Last Common Ancestor of Apes and Humans 
  
Peter Andrews and Terry Harrison, 103 
 
8 Twenty-five Years Contemplating Sivapithecus Taxonomy 
 
Jay Kelley, 123 
  
9 Habitat Requirements and the Extinction of the Miocene Ape, Sivapithecus 
  
Sherry V. Nelson, 145 
  
10 Lots of Faces from Different Places: What Craniofacial Morphology Doesn't
Tell Us About Hominoid Phylogenetics 
  
Bobbie Brown, John Kappelman, and Steven Ward, 167 
  
11 When it Rains it Pours: Legends and Realities of the East African Pluvials 
  
John D. Kingston and Andrew Hill, 189 
  
12 Species Recognition in Paleoanthropology: Implications of Small Sample Sizes 
  
Richard J. Smith, 207 
  
13 Chad, Central Africa: Searching West of the Rift Valley for a New Understanding
of the Hominid Origin 
  
Michel Brunet, Franck Guy, and Patrick Vignaud, 221 
  
14 The Delta Hypothesis 
  
Richard C. Wrangham, 231 
  
15 Plio-Pleistocene Faunal Remains from Gondolin GD 2 In Situ assemblage, Northwest
Province South Africa 
  
Justin W. Adams and Glenn C. Conroy, 243 
 
16 The Kapthurin Formation: What We Know Now That We Didn't Know Then 
  
Sally McBrearty, 263 
 
17 Apples and Oranges: Morphological Versus Behavioral Transitions in the Pleistocene
Daniel E. Lieberman and Ofer Bar-Yosef, 275 
  
18 Energy Metabolism and Transitions in Human Life Histories 
  
Peter 1. Ellison, 297 
  
Index 303 

 
WHERE TO ORDER 
  
ISBN Number 0391042475 ($50 hardcover) 
  
Brill Academic Publishers 
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Posted Date: February 2, 2006