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The Sediments of Time

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by Meave Leakey

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  EPILOGUE

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  Index

  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

  A

  Abell, Paul, 308

  Adam, ancestral, 327, 329

  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 149–50, 166, 171, 201

  Afar region and language, 136, 137, 138, 148, 190, 193

  African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), 116–18, 291

  Africans, modern, 335

  Africa’s Vanishing Art (Mary Leakey), 45–46

  Afropithecus turkanensis, 48

  A.L.666-1, 221

  Alemseged, Zeresenay, 133

  Alexeev, Valery, 219–20

  Allen’s rule, 315

  Allia Bay, 151–56

  altricial babies, 228

  Amin, Idi, 41

  anamensis-afarensis lineage, 155, 176, 180, 181, 188, 192. See also single-lineage hypothesis

  Anancus, 95, 96

  Antarctica, 267, 286, 309–11

  antelopes and antelope fossils, 91, 100, 178, 190–91, 245

  anthrax, 72

  Anthropocene, 344–45

  Antiquities and Monuments Act, 304

  Antón, Susan, 295–302

  Apak Member, 83–86, 88, 92, 94, 96, 100, 106, 109, 157

  apes. See also chimpanzees; gorillas

  fossils of, 47–49, 170

  versus hominins, 172–73

  modern, 108, 150, 153, 162–64, 171, 208, 233, 282

  aphelion, 258, 260

  Arabian Desert, 276

  Arabian Peninsula, 276

  Arambourg, Camille, 183

  Archaeopotamus harvardi, 87, 88

  Archaeopotamus lothagamensis, 87–88

  Ardipithecus (genus), 204

  Ardipithecus kadabba, 173–75

  Ardipithecus ramidus, 148–50, 151, 166, 168, 171–72

  Armstrong, Neil, 3

  Asfaw, Berhane, 201

  Australia, 86, 188, 313, 332–33

  Australians, Aboriginal, 148, 332–33

  Australopithecus (genus), 138, 181, 182, 183, 204–6, 255

  Australopithecus afarensis. See also anamensis-afarensis lineage; Lucy

  A. africanus and, 178

  A. anamensis and, 155–56, 166–68

  A. bahrelghazali and, 192

  Allia Bay fossils and, 151

  brain size and, 162, 190

  Hadar and Laetoli fossils and, 131, 133, 136–37, 171

  hand bones of, 165–68

  Hobbit bones and, 282

  Kanapoi fossils and, 143–44, 153–55

  Lomekwi expedition and, 100, 193, 201–4, 207

  OH7 mandible scans and, 220

  teeth of, 166–68

  Australopithecus africanus, 177–81, 183, 201, 202, 295

  Australopithecus anamensis. See also anamensis-afarensis lineage

  A. afarensis and, 166–68

  ancestors and descendants of, 170–72, 175, 176, 191

  Ardipithecus ramidus and, 168, 171–72

  environment of, 157, 159, 161

  Flat Face and, 204

  Little Foot and, 180

  mandible found by Nzube, 159

  maxilla found by Wambua, 237

  MRD (cranium), 155–56

  Australopithecus bahrelghazali, 192

  Australopithecus ghari, 190–91

  Australopithecus prometheus, 180

  Australopithecus sediba, 180, 190, 191

  autism, 252

  B

  Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, 276

  baboon fossils, 177, 184–85

  baboons, 25–26, 28–29, 162, 164–65, 250, 282, 344

  balance, 254, 255

  balloon barrage, 6

  Bayaka pygmies, 335

  The Beak of the Finch (Weiner), 103

  Behrensmeyer, Kay, 30–31, 77, 79–80, 270

  Belgium, 313

  Benson (assistant), 145–46

  Berger, Lee, 180

  Bergmann’s rule, 315

  Bering Strait, 334

  biodiversity, 323

  bipedalism

  Ardipithecus kadabba and, 174

  Ardipithecus ramidus and, 149–50

  Australopithecus afarensis and, 162

  Australopithecus africanus and, 177–78

  brain size and, 214, 230

  diet and, 189

  gestation period and, 226, 228–29

  hominins versus apes and, 172

  Homo definition and, 215

  human evolution into, 90, 101, 107–8, 110, 131–33, 135, 138–39

  manual dexterity and, 162, 168–69

  Orrorin tugenensis and, 173–74

  running and, 253–55

  Sahelanthropus tchadensis and, 175

  birth canals, 226–29, 233

  Black, Davidson, 209, 210

  Black Skull, 54, 182–83, 188, 190

  Bobe, René, 270

  Bodo cranium from Ethiopia, 305

  body louse, 336–37

  body shape and climate, 315–16

  body temperature regulation, 110

  Boise, Charles, 181–82

  bonobos, 251–53. See also chimpanzees

  Booth, Cynthia, 23–24, 25, 26, 27

  Boule, Marcellin, 314

  bovids, evolution of, 41, 90, 101, 270

  Bowen, Mark, 311

  Brachypotherium, 91

  brain enlargement

  bipedalism and, 133, 162

  cerebral rubicon, 214–15, 218

  empathy and, 252–53

  food uptake and, 107, 243–44, 248–49

  hunting and, 248–49, 250, 253, 255

  manual dexterity and, 162

  migration out of Africa and, 340

  brain size at birth, 225–29, 232–33

  brain-to-body-size ratio, 218, 230

  Bramble, Dennis, 245–47, 249, 253–55

  Bronfman, George, 120

  Broom, Robert, 177–78

  Brown, Frank, 61–62, 196–99, 231, 259–61, 269, 308–9

  Brownlee, Mr., 48

  browsers, 91, 92, 95, 100, 101, 203

  Brunet, Michel, 174–75, 180, 192

  Brunhes, Bernard, 266

  Brunhes Normal Epoch, 266

  Buluk, Kenya, 47, 48

  Burrowed Bed, 198

  Bushmen of the Kalahari, 248

  C

  C3 and C4 photosynthesis, 98–101, 106

  cactus finches, 103, 104

  calcium absorption, 338, 339–40

  calcium carbonate, 263–
64, 265

  camels, 34

  Campbell, Bob, 121–23, 141–42, 145–47, 216

  canine teeth

  in cats, 109

  comparisons between, 149, 150, 171–72, 175, 178

  honing and nonhoning, 172–73, 175, 184–85

  Kanapoi specimens, 140, 150, 152–54

  snout size and, 176, 181

  Cape buffaloes, 134

  capitate (hand bone), 166, 168, 282

  carbon emissions, 99

  carbon isotopes, 97, 98, 165

  carnivores

  early hominins and, 108–10, 161, 187, 203, 240, 244

  extinction of, 270–71

  fossils of, 70, 161

  carrying angle, 131, 132

  Caspari, Rachel, 237

  Catalan Institute of Palaeontology Miguel Crusafont i Pairó, 276

  Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology, 20, 26

  Cercopithecinae (cercopithecines), 25–26

  Cercopithecus monkeys, 189

  cerebral rubicon, 214–15, 218

  Cerling, Thure, 96–100, 183–84

  Chad, 174–75, 192, 193

  Chaplin, George, 338–40

  Cheboi, Kiptalam, 159

  cheetahs, 34–35, 246

  childhood, extended, 229–30, 237–38

  chimpanzees

  birthing, 225–29

  cognitive skills of, 251–53

  dental development in, 232

  foetal and infant development, 226–27, 229, 230, 232

  fossils of, 170

  genome sequencing, 330

  hands of, 163, 165, 168

 

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