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The Origins of Modern Humans Biology Reconsidered

By: Fred H Smith(Author), James C Ahern(Author)
454 pages, 2 plates with colour illustrations; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables
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About this book

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 Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered 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.

Contents

Contributors   ix
Introduction: Thoughts on Modern Human Origins: From 1984 to 2012 / Fred H. Smith and James C. M. Ahern   xi
1 Africa: The Cradle of Modern People / Osbjorn M. Pearson / Robert G. Franciscus and Trenton W. Holliday   1
2 Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia 45
3 A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia / Karen R. Rosenberg and Xinzhi Wu   89
4 Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians / Arthur C. Durband and Michael C. Westaway   123
5 Modern Human Origins in Central Europe / James C. M. Ahern, Ivor Jankoviæ, Jean-Luc Voisin, and Fred H. Smith   151
6 The Makers of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia / Jean-Jacques Hublin   223
7 Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and Its Relevance for Modern Human Origins / Frank L’Engle Williams   253
8 Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans / Andrew W. Froehle, Todd R. Yokley, and Steven E. Churchill   285
9 Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern Human Origins / John H. Relethford   321
10 The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins / John Hawks and Zach Throckmorton   339
11 The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary and Demographic Changes Giving Rise to Modern Humans / Rachel Caspari and Milford H. Wolpoff   355
12 The Paleobiology of Modern Human Emergence / Erik Trinkaus   393
                                                               
Index   435
The color plate section can be found between pages 242 and 243

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Biography

Fred Smith is Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Illinois State University and a past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropology.  A noted authority on neanderthal and early modern human evolution, Dr. Smith has a 40 year record of thought-leading publications.

Jim Ahern is Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Wyoming.  Dr. Ahern's research has covered many aspects of human biological and biocultural evolution, ranging from work on the origin of the hominin lineage to the peopling of the Americas.

By: Fred H Smith(Author), James C Ahern(Author)
454 pages, 2 plates with colour illustrations; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables
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