Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds Book

Hidemi Ishida: 40 years of footprints in Japanese primatology and paleoanthropology.- Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies.- Evolution of the Vertebral Column in Miocene Hominoids and Plio-pleisene Hominids.- Terrestriality in a Middle Miocene Context: Victoriapithecus from Maboko, Kenya.- Late Cenozoic Mammalian Biostratigraphy and Faunal Change: Paleoenvironments of hominoid evolution and dispersal.- The Ages and Geological Backgrounds of Miocene Hominoids Nacholapithecus, Samburupithecus and Orrorin from Kenya.- 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 Mechnaical Environments.- A Hallmark of Humankind: The gluteus maximus muscle: Its form, action and function.- Primates Trained for Bipedal Locomotion as a Model for Studying the Evolution of Bipedal Locomotion.- Locomotor Energetics in Nonhuman Primates: A review of recent studies on bipedal performing macaques.- Computer Simulation of Bipedal Locomotion: Toward elucidating correlations among musculoskeletal morphology, energetics and the origin of bipedalism.- Palaeoenvironments, 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: Reconsideration of food distribution and the estrus sex ratio.- Are Human Beings Apes, or are Apes People Too?- Current Thoughts on Terrestrialization in African Apes and the Origin of Human Bipedalism.