Faunal approaches in early hominin paleoecology / Kaye E. Reed, Lillian M. Spencer, and Amy L. Rector -- Facies analysis and Plio-Pleistocene paleoecology / Craig S. Feibel -- East African hominin paleoecology : isotopic evidence from paleosols / Jay Quade and Naomi E. Levin -- Tectonics, orbital forcing, global climate change, and human evolution in Africa / Mark A. Maslin, Beth Christensen, and Katy E. Wilson -- Early hominin posture and locomotion / Carol V. Ward -- The functional morphology of jaws and teeth : implications for understanding early hominin dietary adaptations / Peter S. Ungar and David J. Daegling -- Dental microwear and paleoecology / Mark F. Teaford, Peter S. Ungar, and Frederick E. Grine -- Hominin ecology from hard tissue biogeochemistry / Julia A. Lee-Thorp and Matt Sponheimer -- The behavior of Plio-Pleistocene hominins : archaeological perspectives / David R. Braun -- Plants and protopeople : paleobotanical reconstruction and early hominin ecology / Jeanne Sept -- Chimpanzee models of human behavioral evolution / John C. Mitani -- Analogies and models in the study of the early hominins / Clifford J. Jolly