Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds

Abstract

Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology.- Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology.- Fossil Hominoids and Paleoenvironments.- Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies.- Evolution of the Vertebral Column in Miocene Hominoids and Plio-Pleistocene Hominids.- Terrestriality in a Middle Miocene Context: Victoriapithecus from Maboko, Kenya.- Late Cenozoic Mammalian Biostratigraphy And Faunal Change.- The Ages and Geological Backgrounds of Miocene Hominoids Nacholapithecus, Samburupithecus, and Orrorin from Kenya.- Functional Morphology.- Patterns of Vertical Climbing in Primates.- Functional Morphology of the Midcarpal Joint in Knuckle-Walkers and Terrestrial Quadrupeds.- Morphological Adaptation of Rat Femora to Different Mechanical Environments.- A Hallmark of Humankind: The Gluteus Maximus Muscle.- Primates Trained for Bipedal Locomotion as a Model for Studying the Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion.- Locomotor Energetics in Nonhuman Primates.- Computer Simulation of Bipedal Locomotion.- Theoretical Approaches.- Paleoenvironments, Paleoecology, Adaptations, and the Origins of Bipedalism in Hominidae.- Arboreal Origin of Bipedalism.- Neontological Perspectives on East African Middle and Late Miocene Anthropoidea.- The Prehominid Locomotion Reflected: Energetics, Muscles, and Generalized Bipeds.- Evolution of the Social Structure of Hominoids.- Are Human Beings Apes, or are Apes People too?.- Current Thoughts on Terrestrialization in African Apes and the Origin of Human Bipedalism.