The origins of modern humans : biology reconsidered / edited by Fred H. Smith and James C. M. Ahern

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Fred H., autor.

Ahern, James C. M., autor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 páxinas)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This update to the award-winning The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the most accepted common theories concerning the emergence of modern Homo sapiens-adding fresh insight from top young scholars on the key new discoveries of the past 25 years. The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered allows field leaders to discuss and assess the assemblage of hominid fossil material in each region of the world during the Pleistocene epoch. It features new fossil and molecular evidence, such as the evolutionary inferences drawn

Contents:

The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Thoughts on Modern Human Origins: From 1984 to 2012; Origins of Modern Humans (1984); A Perspective from a Student (JCMA); A Perspective from an Editor (FHS); New Data and Directions on the Heels of 1984; History; Origins of Modern Humans (2012); Genetics and Genomics; Acknowledgements; Works Cited; 1 Africa: The Cradle of Modern People; Homo erectus; KNM-ER 42700; KNM-OL 45500; Gona Pelvis; The Transition to Homo heidelbergensis or "Archaic Homo sapiens"; Bodo; Saldanha; Kabwe; Ndutu

Baringo KapthurinBerg Aukas; Hoedjiespunt; Late Archaic/Transitional Specimens; Florisbad; Eliye Springs (KNM-ES 11693); KNM-ER 3884; KNM-ER 999; Ngaloba (Laetoli 18); Eyasi Remains; Omo II; Jebel Irhoud Remains; Earliest Modern Humans; Omo I; Herto; Singa; Aduma; Klasies River (Klasies River Mouth); Hominins from the Late MSA or Early LSA; Hofmeyr; Mumbwa; Mumba; Porc-Épic (Diré-Dawa); Taramsa Hill; Nazlet Khater; Dar-es-Soltane II; Haua Fteah; Hominins Formerly Thought to Date to the MSA; Fish Hoek 1; Tuinplaas; Emergence of Distinctive Regional Groups in Africa; The Climatic Background

Speciation Acknowledgments; Works Cited; 2 Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia; Late Pleistocene Western Asia: Anatomical and Taxonomic Variability; Middle Pleistocene Homo in Western Asia; West-Central Asia; Body Size and Shape; Locomotion; Birthing; Manipulation; Craniofacial Form; Trauma and Behavioral Inferences; Burials; Summary; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; 3 A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia; Recently Discovered or Described Human Fossils from East Asia; Yunxian (Quyuan River Mouth); Nanjing; Jinniushan; Dali; Chaoxian

Dadong Zhirendong; Tianyuan Cave; Liujiang; Laishui; Longlin Cave and Maludong; Huanglong Cave; Jingchuan; Salkhit; Discussion and Conclusions; Archaeological Record in East Asia; Summary; Acknowledgments; Note; Works Cited; 4 Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians; Introduction; Birdsell and the Trihybrid model; Thorne and the Dihybrid Model; Single Population Model; Multiple Migrations?; Evidence for Javan Ancestry in Ancient Australians?; Notes on WLH 50; Genetic Evidence for the Colonization of Australia; The "Hobbit"; Discussion; Acknowledgments; Works Cited

5 Modern Human Origins in Central Europe Introduction and a Short Historical Background; The Central European Neandertal Fossil Record; Neandertal Fossils from Western Central Europe; Ehringsdorf; Kleine Feldhofer Grotte; Zeeland Ridges; Sarstedt; Hohlenstein-Stadel; Hunas; Sesselfelsgrotte, Klausennische, and Untere Klause; Warendorf-Neuwarendorf; Ochtendung; Neandertal Fossils from Eastern Central Europe; Neandertal Fossils from Moravia; Šal'a; Suba-lyuk; Krapina; Vindija; Mala Balanica; Stajnia; Neandertals of the Initial Upper Paleolithic?

The Central European Fossil Record of the Earliest Modern Humans

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118659908

1118659902

9781118659991

1118659996

9781118659939

1118659937