Series page

pp ii-ii

African Genesis - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

1 - African Genesis: an evolving paradigm

pp 1-18

2 - Academic genealogy

pp 19-42

Part I - In search of origins: evolutionary theory, new species and paths into the past

pp 43-142

3 - Speciation in hominin evolution

pp 45-62

4 - Searching for a new paradigm for hominid origins in Chad (Central Africa)

pp 63-76

5 - From hominoid arboreality to hominid bipedalism

pp 77-98

6 - Orrorin and the African ape/hominid dichotomy

pp 99-119

7 - A brief review of history and results of 40 years of Sterkfontein excavations

pp 120-142

Part II - Hominin morphology through time: brains, bodies and teeth

pp 143-316

8 - Hominin brain evolution, 1925–2011: an emerging overview

pp 145-162

9 - The issue of brain reorganisation in Australopithecus and early hominids: Dart had it right

pp 163-180

10 - The mass of the human brain: is it a spandrel?

pp 181-204

11 - Origin and diversity of early hominin bipedalism

pp 205-222

12 - Forelimb adaptations in Australopithecus afarensis

pp 223-247

13 - Hominin proximal femur morphology from the Tugen Hills to Flores

pp 248-267

14 - Daily rates of dentine formation and root extension rates in Paranthropus boisei, KNM-ER 1817, from Koobi Fora, Kenya

pp 268-279

15 - On the evolutionary development of early hominid molar teeth and the Gondolin Paranthropus molar

pp 280-297

16 - Digital South African fossils: morphological studies using reference-based reconstruction and electronic preparation

pp 298-316

Part III - Modern human origins: patterns and processes

pp 317-448

17 - Body size in African Middle Pleistocene Homo

pp 319-346

18 - The African origin of recent humanity

pp 347-364

19 - Assimilation and modern human origins in the African peripheries

pp 365-393