Fred H. Smith (ed.)

Continuity or Replacement

Controversies in Homo Sapiens Evolution
Herausgeber: Brauer, Guenter; Smith, Fred H.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is based on the symposium on controversies in 'Homo sapiens evolution' in Zagreb. It examines the competing models for modern human origins within the framework of present-day knowledge in the areas of human paleontology, paleolithic archaeology, and molecular genetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9789061911494
• ISBN-10: 9061911494
• Artikelnr.: 24382927

Autorenporträt

Guenter Brauer (Edited by) , Fred H. Smith (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining modern humans: A multivariate approach 2. The persistence of
Neanderthal features in post-Neanderthal Europeans 3. Homo sapiens sapiens
remains from the island of Crete 4. The evolution of Homo sapiens as
indicated by features of the postcranium 5. Paleolithic archaeology,
ancient behavior, and the transition to modern Homo 6. Neanderthal
cognition and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition 7. Social
transformations at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The
implications of the European record 8. Middle Palaeolithic chronology and
the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in southwest Asia 9. The origin of
anatomically modern humans in east Asia 10. The human colonisation of the
Australian continent