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The origins of modern humans :

The origins of modern humans : biology reconsidered / edited by Fred H. Smith and James C.M. Ahern. - Second edition. - Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xxv, 454 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition statement from running title area. The Central European Fossil Record of the Earliest Modern Humans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Origins of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Thoughts on Modern Human Origins: From 1984 to 2012; Origins of Modern Humans (1984); A Perspective from a Student (JCMA); A Perspective from an Editor (FHS); New Data and Directions on the Heels of 1984; History; Origins of Modern Humans (2012); Genetics and Genomics; Acknowledgements; Works Cited; 1 Africa: The Cradle of Modern People; Homo erectus; KNM-ER 42700; KNM-OL 45500; Gona Pelvis; The Transition to Homo heidelbergensis or "Archaic Homo sapiens"; Bodo; Saldanha; Kabwe; Ndutu. Baringo KapthurinBerg Aukas; Hoedjiespunt; Late Archaic/Transitional Specimens; Florisbad; Eliye Springs (KNM-ES 11693); KNM-ER 3884; KNM-ER 999; Ngaloba (Laetoli 18); Eyasi Remains; Omo II; Jebel Irhoud Remains; Earliest Modern Humans; Omo I; Herto; Singa; Aduma; Klasies River (Klasies River Mouth); Hominins from the Late MSA or Early LSA; Hofmeyr; Mumbwa; Mumba; Porc-Épic (Diré-Dawa); Taramsa Hill; Nazlet Khater; Dar-es-Soltane II; Haua Fteah; Hominins Formerly Thought to Date to the MSA; Fish Hoek 1; Tuinplaas; Emergence of Distinctive Regional Groups in Africa; The Climatic Background. SpeciationAcknowledgments; Works Cited; 2 Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia; Late Pleistocene Western Asia: Anatomical and Taxonomic Variability; Middle Pleistocene Homo in Western Asia; West-Central Asia; Body Size and Shape; Locomotion; Birthing; Manipulation; Craniofacial Form; Trauma and Behavioral Inferences; Burials; Summary; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; 3 A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia; Recently Discovered or Described Human Fossils from East Asia; Yunxian (Quyuan River Mouth); Nanjing; Jinniushan; Dali; Chaoxian. DadongZhirendong; Tianyuan Cave; Liujiang; Laishui; Longlin Cave and Maludong; Huanglong Cave; Jingchuan; Salkhit; Discussion and Conclusions; Archaeological Record in East Asia; Summary; Acknowledgments; Note; Works Cited; 4 Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians; Introduction; Birdsell and the Trihybrid model; Thorne and the Dihybrid Model; Single Population Model; Multiple Migrations?; Evidence for Javan Ancestry in Ancient Australians?; Notes on WLH 50; Genetic Evidence for the Colonization of Australia; The "Hobbit"; Discussion; Acknowledgments; Works Cited. 5 Modern Human Origins in Central EuropeIntroduction and a Short Historical Background; The Central European Neandertal Fossil Record; Neandertal Fossils from Western Central Europe; Ehringsdorf; Kleine Feldhofer Grotte; Zeeland Ridges; Sarstedt; Hohlenstein-Stadel; Hunas; Sesselfelsgrotte, Klausennische, and Untere Klause; Warendorf-Neuwarendorf; Ochtendung; Neandertal Fossils from Eastern Central Europe; Neandertal Fossils from Moravia; Šal'a; Suba-lyuk; Krapina; Vindija; Mala Balanica; Stajnia; Neandertals of the Initial Upper Paleolithic?

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.

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Human evolution.
NATURE--Animals--Mammals.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--Mammals.
Human evolution.


Electronic books.

GN281 / .O75 2013

599.93/8

Khulna University of Engineering & Technology

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