112 Darwins perspective on life processes
The paradigmatic change from a traditional static view into an evolutionary dynamic concept in the beginning of the second half of the penultimate century resulted in the recognition that humans are an integrated part of a historical process. The so-called Darwinian Revolution,'' triggered by Darwin's masterpiece from 1859, remained in the following decades in a long-lasting state of confusion. As Bowler 1988 demonstrates in his historiography The Non-Darwinian Revolution, there were...
embryological data and its phylogenetic implications
It is now more than a century since embryological studies the Reichert-Gaupp theory, refuted by Otto 1984 demonstrated the homology of the mammalian malleus and incus with the articular and quadrate bones which formed the ancestral jaw joint of gnathostomes. This tremendous transition can be traced in fossils by comparing basal synapsids through therapsids to early mammals. A fetal mammal shows that the angular tympanic , articular malleus , and quadrate incus develop in the same positions they...
1 Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research
This chapter provides a comprehensive scientific historical overview on paleoanthropology as a multifaceted biological discipline. A terse compendium on pre-Darwinian theories of evolution is followed by a historical report of the paradigmatic change by Darwin's perspective on life processes from a teleological to a teleonomic view. Focusing on the fossil discoveries in Europe and later on in Asia and Africa and the different methodological approaches, it becomes obvious that as opposed to...
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Winfried Henke Ian Tattersall Editors Institut f r Anthropologie 1050 Fachbereich 10 - Biologie Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz D-55099 Mainz Germany Division of Anthropology American Museum of Natural History New York, NY 10024-5192 USA Institut f r Anthropologie 1050 Fachbereich 10 - Biologie Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz D-55099 Mainz Germany email thormuel students.uni-mainz.de This publication is available also as Electronic publication under ISBN 978-3-540-33761-4 and Print...
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Institut fur Anthropologie 1050 Fachbereich 10 - Biologie Johannes Gutenberg-Universit t Mainz D-55099 Mainz Germany email thormuel students.uni-mainz.de Winfried Henke is currently Professor of Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He was born in 1944 in Ludwigshorst Pomerania, Germany, and studied biology, anthropology and geosciences in Kiel and Braunschweig. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1971, his thesis focusing on a prehistoric anthropological...
132 Southeast Asia as supposed cradle of humankind
If paleoanthropologists had to answer the question of which fossils had the most exceptional influence on human evolutionary thinking, they would, of course, include the Homo erectus fossils from Java alongside those from the Neander Valley. The assessment is very easy to understand first, there is a hero, a young, enthusiastic physician from the Netherlands, Eugene Dubois, who feels inspired by Darwin's theory and Haeckel's preliminary draft of a link between the lesser apes and earliest human...