Volume 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches: Historical Overview of Paleoanthropological Research -- Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis (NEW) -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus -- The Ontogeny-Phylogeny Nexus in a Nutshell: Implications for Primatology and Paleoanthropology -- Principles of Taxonomy and Classification: Current Procedures for Naming and Classifying Organisms -- Species Concepts and Speciation: Facts and Fantasies -- Quantitative Approaches to Phylogenetics -- Homology: A Philosophical and Biological Perspective -- Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology -- Patterns of Diversification and Extinction -- Taphonomic and Diagenetic Processes -- Contribution of Stable Light Isotopes to Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction -- The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments (NEW) -- Geological Background of Hominid Sites in Africa -- Paleosols -- Quaternary Geology and Paleoenvironments (NEW) -- Quaternary Deposits and Paleosites.-Paleoecology: An Adequate Window on the Past? -- Zoogeography: Primate and Early Hominin Distribution and Migration Patterns -- The Paleodemography of Extinct Hominin Populations -- Hominin Paleodiets: The Contribution of Stable Isotopes -- Estimation of Basic Life History Data of Fossil Hominoids -- Genetics and Paleoanthropology (NEW) -- Ancient DNA .-Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach -- Modeling the Past: The Paleoethnological Approach .-Modeling the Past: Archaeology -- The Evolution of Speech and Language (NEW) -- General Principles of Evolutionary Morphology -- Virtual Anthropology and Biomechanics (NEW) -- Paleopathology: Vestiges of Pathological Conditions in Fossil Human Bone (NEW) -- Microscopic Research on Fossil Human Bone (NEW) -- Investigation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Fossil Bone: Facts and Perspectives (NEW) -- Images in Paleoanthropology: Facing Our Ancestors (NEW) -- Prospects and Pitfalls -- Volume 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins: Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence -- Molecular Evidence of Primate Origins and Evolution (NEW) -- Fossil Record of the Primates from the Paleocene to the Oligocene (NEW) -- Fossil Record of Miocene Hominoids -- The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominids -- Postcranial and Locomotor Adaptations of Hominoids -- Hominoid Cranial Diversity and Adaptation -- Dental Adaptations of African Apes -- Evolution of the Primate Brain -- Primate Life Histories -- Great Ape Social Systems -- Evolutionary Biology of Ape and Monkey Feeding and Nutrition -- The Hunting Behavior and Carnivory of Wild Chimpanzees -- Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances -- Primate Intelligence -- Theory of Mind: A Primatological Perspective (NEW) -- Volume 3: Phylogeny of Hominins: Potential Hominoid Ancestors for Hominidae -- Defining Hominidae -- Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins -- Origins of Homininae and Putative Selection Pressures Acting on the Early Hominins -- Origin of Bipedal Locomotion -- The Evolution of the Hominid Brain (NEW) -- Analyzing Hominin Phylogeny: Cladistic Approach -- Phylogenetic Relationships of Hominids: Biomolecular Approach -- The Miocene Hominoids and the Earliest Putative Hominids -- The Species and Diversity of Australopiths -- Defining the Genus Homo -- The Earliest Putative Homo Fossils -- Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries -- Defining Homo erectus (NEW) -- Later Middle Pleistocene Homo -- Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries -- Homo floresiensis (NEW) -- Origin of Modern Humans -- Population Biology and Population Genetics of Pleistocene Hominins -- Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, Frontiers, and New Territories (NEW) -- Dentition of American Indians: Evolutionary Results and Demographic Implications Following Colonization from Siberia -- Overview of Paleolithic Archaeology -- Cultural Evolution During the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Africa and Eurasia -- Evolution of Religion (NEW) -- Paleoanthropology and the Foundation of Ethics: Methodological Remarks on the Problem of Criteriology.