Research Catalog

Title

Conceptual issues in modern human origins research / G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet, editors.

Publication

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Geoffrey A.
• Willermet, C. M. (Catherine M.), 1968-

Description

xiii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Evolutionary foundations of human behavior

Uniform Title

Evolutionary foundations of human behavior.

Subject

• Human beings > Origin
• Human evolution > Research
• Human evolution > Philosophy
• Hominidae
• Biological Evolution
• Anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-492) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Modern Human Origins: Narrow Focus or Broad Spectrum? / C. Loring Brace -- 2. What Does It Mean to be Modern? / Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari -- 3. Systematics in Anthropology: Where Science Confronts the Humanities (and Consistently Loses) / Jonathan Marks -- 4. Through a Glass Darkly: Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research / G. A. Clark -- 5. Fuzzy Set Theory and Its Implications for Speciation Models / Catherine M. Willermet and Brett Hill -- 6. Problems and Limitations of Absolute Dating in Regard to the Appearance of Modern Humans in Southwestern Europe / H. P. Schwarcz -- 7. The Near East and Europe: Continuity or Discontinuity? / Bernard Vandermeersch -- 8. Modern Humans at the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in France: Anthropological Data and Perspectives / Dominique Gambier -- 9. The Transition to Anatomically Modern Humans: The Case of Peninsular Italy / Amilcare Bietti --
• 10. The Human Paleontology of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition on the Iberian Peninsula / Maria Dolores Garralda -- 11. Scenarios for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition: A European Perspective / Jean-Philippe Rigaud -- 12. The Concept of "Upper Paleolithic Hunters" in Southwestern Europe: A Historical Perspective / J. Gonzalez Echegaray -- 13. The Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic in the Cave of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain) / Victoria Cabrera Valdes, Manuel Hoyos Gomez and Federico Bernaldo de Quiros Guidotti -- 14. Models, Polarization, and Perspectives on Modern Human Origins / Gunter Brauer and Chris Stringer -- 15. Morphological Evolution, Behavior Change, and the Origins of Modern Humans / Steven E. Churchill -- 16. Perspectives on Neanderthals as Ancestors / David W. Frayer -- 17. The Iberian Situation between 40,000 and 30,000 B.P. in Light of European Models of Migration and Convergence.

ISBN

• 0202020398 (acid-free paper)
• 0202020401 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96033415

OCLC

ocm35212776

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries