Bones, stones and molecules : "out of Africa" and human origins / David W. Cameron and Colin P. Groves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, David W.

Contributor:

Groves, Colin P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoanthropology.

Human evolution.

Physical Description:

xi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction

Interlude 1 : creationism and other brainstorms

Evolution of the Miocene great apes

Later Miocene and Pliocene hominids

Interlude 2 : the importance of being an ape

Our kind of hominins

A systematic scheme for the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene hominids

Interlude 3 : of men's beards and peacock's tails

The first African exodus : the emergence of early homo in Europe and Asia

Human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene

Interlude 4 : the geography of humanity

"The grisly folk" : the emergence of the Neanderthals

The second African exodus : the emergence of modern humans

The emergence of modern humans in Asia and Australia

Interlude 5 : Milford Wolpoff in the Garden of Eden

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-394) and index.

ISBN:

0121569330

OCLC:

53376023