"Background papers and discussion transcription of a symposium, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ... Burg Wartenstein, Austria ... July 10 to 22, 1961."

Climatic-geomorphologic interpretation of Pleistocene sediments in the Eurafrican subtropics / Karl W. Butzer -- The distribution of tropical African birds as an indicator of past climatic changes / R.E. Moreau -- Observations on the ecology of some large African mammals / F. Bourlière -- Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa / C. Arambourg -- Pleistocene mammal faunas of Africa with particular reference to southern Africa / H.B.S. Cooke -- The Late Tertiary and Pleistocene in the Sahara and adjacent southerly regions / T. Monod -- Some aspects of the Pleistocene paleogeography of the Chad basin / A.T. Grove and R.A. Pullan -- The later Tertiary and Pleistocene in eastern equatorial Africa / W.W. Bishop -- Paleoecological conditions of the Lake Albert-Lake Edward Rift / J. de Heinzelin -- Observations of the absolute chronology of the Upper Pleistocene / J. de Heinzelin -- Brief remarks on the vegetation of the mountainous regions of East Congo / L. Liben -- Pleistocene environments in southern Africa / Geoffrey Bond -- Baboon ecology and human evolution / Irven DeVore and S.L. Washburn -- Observations on the ecology and social behavior of the mountain gorilla / George B. Schaller and John T. Emlen, Jr. -- Adaptive radiation in the Australopithecines and the origin of man / J.T. Robinson -- Human evolution in Morocco, in the framework of the paleoclimatic variations of the Atlantic Pleistocene / P. Biberson -- Very early East African hominidae, and their ecological setting / L.S.B. Leakey -- Acheulian hunter-gatherers of Sub-Saharan Africa / F. Clark Howell and J. Desmond Clark -- Some ecolgical factors effecting human populations in Sub-Saharan Africa / J. Hiernaux.