Hominid Adaptations and ExtinctionsLooking at a period of history 22 to 2.5 million years ago, Hominid Adaptations synthesizes the information currently available on hominid palaeobiology. It examines the record of the Neogene fossil apes: their adaptive trends, their morphologies and their relationships to the environment; their evolution and in many cases their extinctions. In so doing, it will provide original insights into the evolution of our most distant and our most immediate fossil ancestors. |
Contents
Chapter | 4 |
Chapter 2 | 17 |
Chapter 3 | 75 |
The evolutionary significance of the African early hominoids | 94 |
Chapter 5 | 109 |
The evolutionary significance of the Asian hominids | 125 |
Chapter 6 | 135 |
Common terms and phrases
adaptive African Afropithecini Afropithecus allocated Andrews Ankarapithecus apes Ardipithecus associated Australopithecus bauplan brancoi Cameron chimpanzee clade condition observed corpus cranial base cusps and cristae defined dental complex derived developed Dryopithecus Equatorius evolution evolutionary extant hominids facial folivorous forest fossa fossil record frontal bone frontal sinus genus gorilla Graecopithecus Griphopithecus habitat Heliopithecus heseloni hominids Hominoidea Homo homoplasies incisive fossa incisor incisor complex incisor heteromorphy increased indicates inferior transverse tori infranasal interorbital Kenyapithecinae Kenyapithecus lacrimal Lacrimal fossa later Leakey locomotion Lufengpithecus mandible masticatory million years ago Miocene Miocene hominoids molar molar complexes molar enamel Morotopithecus morphology muscle nasal clivus neuro-orbital nyanzae orang-utan orbital overall palaeohabitat palate paniscus Paranthropus pattern phylogenetic Pilbeam Ponginae Pongo postcranial postorbital constriction premaxilla premolar premolar and molar primitive Proconsul Proconsulidae prognathism proto-australopithecines pygmaeus Ramapithecus Rangwapithecus reduced region relative robust similar Sivapithecus species specimens suggests supraorbital torus synapomorphies transverse torus troglodytes Turkanapithecus upper face upper molar zygomatic
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