The History of Our Tribe - Hominini

by Barbara Welker

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The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning over 65 million years ago, Welker traces the evolution of our species, the environments and selective forces that shaped our ancestors, their physical and cultural adaptations, and the people and places involved with their discovery and study. It is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution.

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Publisher
SUNY Geneseo
Subjects
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About the Author
  7. 1: Introduction to Paleoanthropology
  8. 1.1: Paleoanthropology
  9. 1.2: Primate Classification
  10. 1.3: Primate Evolution
  11. 1.4: Primate Social Organization
  12. 1.5: What is a Hominim
  13. 2: Miocene Epoch
  14. 2.1: Introduction to the Miocene Epoch
  15. 2.2: Sahelanthropus tchadensis
  16. 2.3: Orrorin tugenensis
  17. 2.4: Ardipithecus ramidus and Ardipithecus kadabba
  18. 3: Pliocene Epoch
  19. 3.1: Introduction to the Pliocene Epoch
  20. 3.2: Australopithecus anamensis
  21. 3.3: Gracile Australopiths
  22. 3.4: Australopithecus afarensis
  23. 3.5: Australopithecus bahrelghazali
  24. 3.6: Kenyanthropus platyops
  25. 3.7: Australopithecus prometheus or africanus
  26. 3.8: Australopithecus africanus
  27. 4: Pleistocene Epoch
  28. 4.1: Introduction to the Pleistocene Epoch
  29. 4.2: Paranthropines
  30. 4.3: Australopithecus/Paranthropus aethiopicus
  31. 4.4: Paranthropus boisei
  32. 4.5: Paranthropus robustus
  33. 4.6: Australopithecus garhi
  34. 4.7: Australopithecus sediba
  35. 4.8: Genus Homo
  36. 4.9: Homo habilis
  37. 4.10: Homo rudolfensis
  38. 4.11: Homo species indeterminate
  39. 4.12: Homo naledi
  40. 4.13: The “erectus Grade”
  41. 4.14: Homo ergaster
  42. 4.15: Homo erectus
  43. 4.16: Homo georgicus
  44. 4.17: Homo antecessor
  45. 4.18: Homo floresiensis
  46. 4.19: Homo heidelbergensis
  47. 4.20: The Denisovans
  48. 4.21: Homo neanderthalensis
  49. 4.22: Homo sapiens
  50. Back Matter
  51. Bibliography
  52. Postscript
  53. Index
  54. Detailed Licensing