Table of Contents

1. The History of Paleoanthropology.I. A SYNTHESIS OF APPROACHES TO HUMAN EVOLUTION, 1860-1890. 2. Comparative Anatomy. 3. The Human Fossil Record.II. COMPETING APPROACHES TO HUMAN EVOLUTION, 1890-1935. 4. Primate Phylogeny. 5. Human Phylogeny.III. TOWARD THE MODERN RESEARCH STRUCTURE IN PALEOANTHROPOLOGY, 1935-2000. 6. The Constriction of Human Phylogenetic Hypothesis, 1935-1950. 7. Primate Phylogeny, 1935-1965. 8. The Place of the Australopithecines, 1925-1965. 9. Human Phylogeny, 1950-1965.10. Primate and Human Phylogeny, 1965-2000.11. The Nature of Paleoanthropology.Chapter Notes.Biographical Appendix.References.Index

About the Author

Richard G. Delisle has earned two doctorates—one in philosophy of science from the Université de Montréal and the other in paleoanthropology from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa—but, at the same time, he likes to get his hands dirty. He has worked on archeological digs in the south of France and paleontological excavations in the western United States.