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Ahern, James C.

The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered

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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 from assessments of modern humans and large segments of the Neandertal genome. It also addresses the impact of digital imagery and the more sophisticated morphometrics that have entered the analytical fray since 1984.

Beginning with a thoughtful introduction by the authors on modern human origins, the book offers such insightful chapter contributions as:

  • Africa: The Cradle of Modern People
  • Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia
  • A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia
  • Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians
  • Modern Human Origins in Central Europe
  • The Makers of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia
  • Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and Its Relevance for Modern Human Origins
  • Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans
  • Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern Human Origins
  • The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins
  • The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary and Demographic Changes Giving Rise to Modern Humans
  • The Paleobiology of Modern Human Emergence

Elegant and thought provoking, The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered is an ideal read for students, grad students, and professionals in human evolution and paleoanthropology.

Keywords: human evolution, Neanderthal, Multi-Regional Evolution, Recent African Evolution, out of africa model, Assimilation Model, Neanderthal genome, homo Sapiens origin, homo erectus, human evolution fossils, paleoanthropology, Biological Anthropology, Paleontology, Paleobiology & Geobiology, Biological Anthropology, Paleontology, Paleobiology & Geobiology

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2014
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
480 pages
Category
Natural Sciences
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118659908
Printed ISBN
9780470894095

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