The Origins of Modern Humans

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This update to the award-winning The Origins of ModernHumans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the mostaccepted common theories concerning the emergence of modern Homosapiens--adding fresh insight from top young scholars onthe key new discoveries of the past 25 years. The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered allowsfield leaders to discuss and assess the assemblage of hominidfossil material in each region of the world during the Pleistoceneepoch. It features new fossil and molecular evidence, such as theevolutionary inferences drawn from assessments of modern humans andlarge segments of the Neandertal genome. It also addresses theimpact of digital imagery and the more sophisticated morphometricsthat have entered the analytical fray since 1984. Beginning with a thoughtful introduction by the authors onmodern human origins, the book offers such insightful chaptercontributions as: * Africa: The Cradle of Modern People * Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in WesternAsia * 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 WesternEurasia * Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and ItsRelevance for Modern Human Origins * Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans * Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern HumanOrigins * The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins * The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary andDemographic 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, gradstudents, and professionals in human evolution andpaleoanthropology.

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Fred H. Smith

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Anthropologie Anthropology Biological Anthropology Biologische Anthropologie Biowissenschaften Earth Sciences Evolution (Biol.) Evolution des Menschen Geowissenschaften Human Evolution Life Sciences Mensch Paläontologie, Paläobiologie u. Geobiologie Paleontology, Paleobiology & Geobiology

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"A valuable resource, likely to be a source of discussionfor specialists through the decade. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 July 2014) "The editors are to be congratulated for having assembled thisoverall extraordinary group of researchers to update thethree-decades-old Origins. I am confident that the presentvolume will take its place alongside its predecessor as a book towhich many professionals and students alike will turn for currentinformation and thinking on the biology of modern human origins. Iam certain that Frank Spencer would have approved of theeditors' efforts." (The Quarterly Review ofBiology, 1 June 2014)
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