Neanderthals : fact, fiction, and wishful thinking / Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Jeffrey H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Denisovans.

Fossil hominids.

Human evolution.

Neanderthals.

homo neanderthalensis (extinct species).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

In the early 20th century, paleoanthropologists interpreted the oft-profound differences between specimens of an expanding human fossil record as reflecting taxonomic and evolutionary diversity. Why, then, in the 1940s, did geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky reconfigure human evolution into one, profoundly morphologically variable lineage which changed slowly through time? Neanderthals: Fact, Fiction, and Wishful Thinking exposes, for the first time, the history of how conceptions of race have configured interpretations of the first-found human fossils; how assumptions underlying human fossils were and still are interpreted as to species and their evolutionary relationships.

Contents:

Conceiving humans and their past

Development, genetics, and evolutionary thinking

Genetics and the origin of species: the invention of the “modern evolutionary synthesis”

Changing how humans evolved

The classification that changed paleoanthropology

The ongoing impact of the Wenner-Gren Symposium on the interpretation of fossils, “genes,” and human evolution

Humans, Neanderthals, “Denisovans,” and DNA

You may be OK with mating with a Neanderthal, but would a Neanderthal want to mate with you?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on July 29, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Schwartz, Jeffrey H. Neanderthals.

ISBN:

9780197785430

0197785433

OCLC:

1592789436

Publisher Number:

CIPO000395170

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license