Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds - Ishida, Hidemi; Tuttle, Russell; Pickford, Martin; Ogihara, Naomichi; Nakatsukasa, Masato; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
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.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Animal anatomy; Animal systematics; Animal taxonomy; Evolutionary Biology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.