African ecology and human evolution, edited by F. Clark Howell and François Bourlière

Resource Information

The instance African ecology and human evolution, edited by F. Clark Howell and François Bourlière represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.

Label

African ecology and human evolution, edited by F. Clark Howell and François Bourlière

Statement of responsibility

edited by F. Clark Howell and François Bourlière

Instantiates

• African ecology and human evolution

Publication

• Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co., 1963

Note

"Background papers and discussion transcription of a symposium, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ... Burg Wartenstein, Austria ... July 10 to 22, 1961."

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographies

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Climatic-geomorphologic interpretation of Pleistocene sediments in the Eurafrican subtropics / Karl W. Butzer -- The distribution of tropical African birds as an indicator of past climatic changes / R.E. Moreau -- Observations on the ecology of some large African mammals / F. Bourlière -- Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa / C. Arambourg -- Pleistocene mammal faunas of Africa with particular reference to southern Africa / H.B.S. Cooke -- The Late Tertiary and Pleistocene in the Sahara and adjacent southerly regions / T. Monod -- Some aspects of the Pleistocene paleogeography of the Chad basin / A.T. Grove and R.A. Pullan -- The later Tertiary and Pleistocene in eastern equatorial Africa / W.W. Bishop -- Paleoecological conditions of the Lake Albert-Lake Edward Rift / J. de Heinzelin -- Observations of the absolute chronology of the Upper Pleistocene / J. de Heinzelin -- Brief remarks on the vegetation of the mountainous regions of East Congo / L. Liben -- Pleistocene environments in southern Africa / Geoffrey Bond -- Baboon ecology and human evolution / Irven DeVore and S.L. Washburn -- Observations on the ecology and social behavior of the mountain gorilla / George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen, Jr. -- Adaptive radiation in the Australopithecines and the origin of man / J.T. Robinson -- Human evolution in Morocco, in the framework of the paleoclimatic variations of the Atlantic Pleistocene / P. Biberson -- Very early East African hominidae, and their ecological setting / L.S.B. Leakey -- Acheulian hunter-gatherers of Sub-Saharan Africa / F. Clark Howell and J. Desmond Clark -- Some ecolgical factors effecting human populations in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Hiernaux

Control code

549990

Dimensions

26 cm

Extent

viii, 666 pages

Lccn

63012473

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

illustrations, maps (part folded)

Record ID

.b16936887

System control number

(WaOLN)354599