The Origins Of Modern Humans

Author : Fred H. Smith,James C. Ahern
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118659908

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The Origins of Modern Humans by Fred H. Smith,James C. Ahern Pdf

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.

Author : Doris V. Nitecki,Matthew H. Nitecki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489915078

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Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans by Doris V. Nitecki,Matthew H. Nitecki Pdf

This volume is based on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring System atics Symposium held in Chicago on May 11, 1991. The financial support of Ray and Jean Auel and of the Field Museum is gratefully acknowledged. When we teach or write, we present only those elements that support our arguments. We avoid all weak points of our debate and all the uncer tainties of our models. Thus, we offer hypotheses as facts. Multiauthored books like ours, which simultaneously advocate and question diverse views, avoid the pitfalls and lessen the impact of indoctrination. In this volume we analyze the anthropological and biological disagreements and the positions taken on the origins of modern humans, point out difficultieswith the inter pretations, and suggest that the concept of the human origin can be explained only when we first attempt to define Homo sapiens sapiens. One of the major controversies in physical anthropology concerns the geographic origin of anatomically modern humans. It is undisputed, due to the extensive research of the Leakeys and their colleagues, that the family Hominidae originated in Africa, but the geographic origin of Homo sapiens sapiens is less concretely accepted. Two schools of thought existon this topic.

Author : Roger Lewin
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0716760231

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The Origin of Modern Humans by Roger Lewin Pdf

The tools used to unearth the facts of our prehistoric past have not always been tangible. Each fossil discovery and new methods of analysis is met with an avalanche of debate, alternate interpretations, and the refutation of competing theories. This text is a concise and provocative look at some answers to the question " Where did we come from? " .

Author : Sally C. Reynolds,Andrew Gallagher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107019959

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African Genesis by Sally C. Reynolds,Andrew Gallagher Pdf

This book reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.

Author : John F. Hoffecker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231543743

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Modern Humans by John F. Hoffecker Pdf

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a “major transition” in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.

Author : Vicki Cummings,Peter Jordan,Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191025273

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers by Vicki Cummings,Peter Jordan,Marek Zvelebil Pdf

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.

Author : Winfried Henke,Ian Tattersall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2057 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540324744

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Handbook of Paleoanthropology by Winfried Henke,Ian Tattersall Pdf

This 3-volume handbook brings together contributions by the world ́s leading specialists that reflect the broad spectrum of modern palaeoanthropology, thus presenting an indispensable resource for professionals and students alike. Vol. 1 reviews principles, methods, and approaches, recounting recent advances and state-of-the-art knowledge in phylogenetic analysis, palaeoecology and evolutionary theory and philosophy. Vol. 2 examines primate origins, evolution, behaviour, and adaptive variety, emphasizing integration of fossil data with contemporary knowledge of the behaviour and ecology of living primates in natural environments. Vol. 3 deals with fossil and molecular evidence for the evolution of Homo sapiens and its fossil relatives.

Author : John H. Relethford
Publisher : Wiley-Liss
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0471384135

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Genetics and the Search for Modern Human Origins by John H. Relethford Pdf

A major debate in anthropology concerns the relationship between anatomically modern humans and earlier "archaic" humans including the Neandertals. What was the origin of modern humans? Did we arise as a new species in Africa 200,000 years ago and then replace archaic human populations outside of Africa, or are our origins part of a single evolving lineage extending back over the past two million years? In addition to fossil and archaeological evidence, anthropologists have increasingly turned to using genetic data on living populations to address this question. Patterns of genetic variation within and between living human populations are felt to contain clues as to our species' evolutionary history, and provide a reflection of the past. This book reviews the modern human origins debate focusing on the genetic evidence relating to our origins, including genetic variation in living humans and recent discoveries of ancient DNA from fossil specimens. Following a brief introduction to the problem and a review of evolutionary genetics, the book focuses on gene trees and the search for a common ancestor, genetic diversity within populations, genetic distances between populations, the use of genetic data to reconstruct ancient demography, and Neandertal DNA. The main point of the text is that although the genetic data are often compatible with a replacement model, they are also compatible with some multiregional models. The concluding chapter makes the case that modern human origins are mostly, but not exclusively, out of Africa.

Author : Roger Lewin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Human beings
ISBN : OCLC:1036771762

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The Origin of Modern Humans by Roger Lewin Pdf

Author : Benoît Dubreuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139491310

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Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies by Benoît Dubreuil Pdf

In this book, Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience and primatology, he offers a natural history of hierarchies from the point of view of both cultural and biological evolution. This volume explains why dominance hierarchies typical of primate societies disappeared in the human lineage and why the emergence of large-scale societies during the Neolithic period implied increased social differentiation, the creation of status hierarchies, and, eventually, political centralisation.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761446323

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Modern Humans by Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

"Describes the rise of modern humans, Homo sapiens, including the theories about our origins and how we spread throughout the world, with information based on the latest fossil and DNA studies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Chris Stringer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429973441

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Lone Survivors by Chris Stringer Pdf

A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient ancestors in different parts of the world) and his own "out of Africa" theory, which maintains that humans emerged rapidly in one small part of Africa and then spread to replace all other humans within and outside the continent. Stringer's new theory, based on archeological and genetic evidence, holds that distinct humans coexisted and competed across the African continent—exchanging genes, tools, and behavioral strategies. Stringer draws on analyses of old and new fossils from around the world, DNA studies of Neanderthals (using the full genome map) and other species, and recent archeological digs to unveil his new theory. He shows how the most sensational recent fossil findings fit with his model, and he questions previous concepts (including his own) of modernity and how it evolved. Lone Survivors will be the definitive account of who and what we were, and will change perceptions about our origins and about what it means to be human.

Author : Fred H. Smith,Frank Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000987961J

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The Origins of Modern Humans by Fred H. Smith,Frank Spencer Pdf

Chapter on Australasia separately annotated; see Wolpoff, M.H. and others.

Author : Takeru Akazawa,Kenichi Aoki,Ofer Bar-Yosef
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471537

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Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia by Takeru Akazawa,Kenichi Aoki,Ofer Bar-Yosef Pdf

In this fascinating volume, the Middle Paleolithic archaeology of the Middle East is brought to the current debate on the origins of modern humans. These collected papers gather the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries of Western Asia - a region that is often overshadowed by African or European findings - but the only region in the world where both Neandertal and early modern human fossils have been found. The collection includes reports on such well known cave sites as Kebara, Hayonim, and Qafzeh, among others. The information and interpretations available here are a must for any serious researcher or student of anthropology or human evolution.

Author : Chris Stringer,Robin McKie
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627797498

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African Exodus by Chris Stringer,Robin McKie Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book A New York Times Notable Book Once in a generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity, has set off one of the most bitter debates in contemporary science. "We emerged out of Africa," the authors cont, "less than 100,000 years ago and replaced all other human populations." Employing persuasive fossil and genetic evidence (the proof is in the blood, not just the bones) and an exceptionally readable style, Stringer and McKie challenge long-held beliefs that suggest we evolved separately as different races with genetic roots reaching back two million years.