Putting people into perspective / by Robert Foley -- Pleistocene environments in time and space / by Neil Roberts -- Human evolution and biological adaptation in the Pleistocene / by Chris Stringer -- Early man and the red queen / Robert Foley -- Hyaenas and hominids / by Andrew Hill -- Hominid hunters? / by Richard Potts -- Mental abilities of early man / by John A.J. Gowlett -- Hominids and fellow-travellers / by Alan Turner -- Hunter-gatherers and large mammals in glacial Britain / by Katharine Scott -- Regional variation in hunter-gatherer strategy in the Upper Pleistocene of Europe / by Clive Gamble -- Community ecology and Pleistocene extinctions in the Levant / by Andrew N. Garrard.