Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology

adaptive adaptive radiation afarensis African hominoids animals arboreal archaeological areas Australopithecus afarensis Australopithecus africanus baboons Binford biological biomass bipedalism body weight carnivores catarrhines cercopithecoids Chapter characteristics chimpanzees competition consequences context diversity dry season early hominids East Africa ecological environmental evidence evolutionary change evolutionary ecology evolved extinction factors Figure Foley foraging behaviour fossil hominids fossil record gene genetic geological Gorilla groups habitats herbivores home ranges hominid evolution Homo erectus human evolution hunter-gatherers increased body individuals Koobi Koobi Fora large mammals living locomotor mammals meat-eating Miocene monkeys natural selection niche non-human primates occur Olduvai orang-utan organisms palaeoanthropology past pattern period Pilbeam plant Pleistocene Pliocene populations predator primates principles problems processes radiation Ramapithecus relationship relative reproductive robust australopithecines savanna savanna environments selective pressures sexual dimorphism speciation species strategies suggested survival Swartkrans terrestrial primates trend tropical environments variability variation