Functional inference in paleoanthropology: theory and practice

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"The book explores the relationship of theory to practice in the discipline of functional morphology in the context of human evolution"--

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Full title :Functional inference in paleoanthropology : theory and practice / David J. Daegling.

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"The book explores the relationship of theory to practice in the discipline of functional morphology in the context of human evolution"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

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Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication:Baltimore, Maryland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

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Description:xii, 264 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9781421442945, 1421442949
oclc:on1245957026
LC Classification:GN281
Dewey Decimal:569.9

Preface -- Unresolved problems in human evolution -- Situating functional morphology in evolutionary biology -- Defining adaptation : essential or esoteric? -- Repackaging the enterprise -- Form versus function : the question of primacy -- The formalization of structuralism -- Paleobiology and uniformitarian principles -- Allometry as explanation -- Total morphological pattern -- Developmental perspectives on bone morphology -- The Mechanostat -- Mechanobiology -- Interpreting bone morphology through phenotypic plasticity -- Teleonomy reexamined -- Form versus function : philosophically trivial or pragmatically crucial? -- Approaches to functional inference in paleoanthropology -- The great escape hatch : more fossils will fix everything -- Does the general approach matter? -- Multiscalar approaches to functional inference -- The comparative calculus -- Rules of engagements -- Is process discoverable via pattern? -- The paradigm method -- Analogy -- Phylogenetic brackets -- Biomechanical reduction -- Morphogenesis through mechanobiology -- The Law of the Hammer -- The relationship of method to theory -- Bipedality -- The ecological question -- The energetics question -- The precur…