David Begun is Professor in the Department of Anthropology,University of Toronto. A paleoanthropologist with 30 years ofexperience in the analysis of fossil apes, Begun's currentresearch focuses on the relationships between European and Africanfossil and living great apes and the origin of the African apes andhumans. He has published numerous articles and book chapterson that topic, and on the description and analysis of fossils fromEurope, Asia, and Africa.

List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables xvi
Notes on Contributors xviii
Acknowledgments xxviii
1 The Past, Present and Future of Paleoanthropology 1
David R. Begun
2 History 17
Matthew R. Goodrum
Part I Background to Paleoanthropology 35
Section 1 Method and Theory 35
3 Human Systematics 37
David S. Strait
4 Experimental Approaches to Musculoskeletal Function inPrimates 55
Matthew J. Ravosa, Kimberly A. Congdon, and Rachel A.Menegaz
5 Multivariate Quantitative Methods in Paleoanthropology75
Michael A. Schillaci and Philipp Gunz
6 Growth, Development, and Life History in Hominin Evolution97
Jay Kelley and Debra Bolter
Section 2 Anatomical Regions 118
7 Cranial Evolution in the Apes 119
Brian T. Shea
8 Hominid Brain Evolution 136
P. Thomas Schoenemann
9 Hominin Diets 165
Peter S. Ungar and Matt Sponheimer
10 Origin and Evolution of Human Postcranial Anatomy 183
Brian G. Richmond and Kevin G. Hatala
Section 3 Environment and Behavior 203
11 Multiproxy Paleoecology: Reconstructing Evolutionary Contextin Paleoanthropology 204
Kaye E. Reed
12 Reconstructing Social Behavior from Fossil Evidence 226
J. Michael Plavcan
13 Geochronology 244
Alan L. Deino
14 The Origins and Evolution of Technology 265
Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth
Section 4 Genetics and Race 290
15 Genetic Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution 291
Todd R. Disotell
16 The Genetics of Morphology 306
Richard J. Sherwood and Dana L. Duren
17 Paleoanthropology and Race 321
Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
Part II The Fossil Record 339
Section 5 Paleogene Primates 339
18 Primate Origins 341
Mary T. Silcox
19 Anthropoid Origins 358
K. Christopher Beard
20 Catarrhine Origins 376
Terry Harrison
Section 6 Neogene/Quaternary Hominoids 397
21 The Miocene Hominoid Radiations 398
David R. Begun
22 Before Australopithecus : The Earliest Hominins 417
Scott W. Simpson
23 Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus 434
Ashley S. Hammond and Carol V. Ward
24 Paranthropus 457
Bernard Wood and Kes Schroer
Section 7 The Age of Homo 479
25 Earliest Homo 480
Friedemann Schrenk
26 Homo erectus and Related Taxa 497
Susan C. Antón
27 The Middle Pleistocene Record: On the Ancestry ofNeandertals, Modern Humans and Others ... 517
Jean-Jacques Hublin
28 Neanderthals 538
Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou
29 Modern Human Origins 557
Mark Collard and Mana Dembo
30 Homo floresiensis 582
William L. Jungers
Index 599

A Companion to Paleoanthropology presents a compendium of readings from leading scholars in the field that define our current knowledge of the major discoveries and developments in human origins and human evolution, tracing the fossil record from primate and hominid origins to the dispersal of modern humans across the globe.
* Represents an accessible state-of-the-art summary of the entire field of paleoanthropology, with an overview of hominid taxonomy
* Features articles on the key discoveries in ape and human evolution, in cranial, postcranial and brain evolution, growth and development
* Surveys the breadth of the paleontological record from primate origins to modern humans
* Highlights the unique methods and techniques of paleoanthropology, including dating and ecological methods, and use of living primate date to reconstruct behavior in fossil apes and humans