Research Catalog

Title

• The origins of modern humans : biology reconsidered.

Publication

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Ahern, James C. M.
• Smith, Fred H.

Description

xxv, 454 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm

Summary

• "In 1984, Fred Smith and Frank Spencer introduced The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence, a volume which introduced two of the major theories of human evolution that would be debated for the next twenty years. The book went on to win Best Book in the Life Sciences 1984. Now Smith, with Jim Ahern, has compiled the second edition of this field classic, incorporating the latest information in paleontological, genetic and developmental biology to pick up where the first edition left off and push the debate forward for the next twenty years"--
• "This work provides an update of an award-winning classic, which introduced the major competing theories in human evolution. The coverage now features new fossil and molecular evidence, such as the genetic evidence including evolutionary inferences drawn from assesments of modern humans and large segments of the genome of the Neanderthal. The inclusion of younger scholars also enhances the work, leading to a comprehensive and vibrant current edition"--

Subject

• Anthropology, Physical
• Biological Evolution
• DNA > analysis
• Evolution
• Haplorhini
• Hominisation
• Human evolution
• Mensch
• Paleontology
• Paläanthropologie
• SCIENCE > Evolution

Note

• Updated edition of: The origins of modern humans : a world survey of the fossil evidence / editors, Fred H. Smith, Frank Spencer. New York : A.R. Liss, ©1984. (Introduction)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Thoughts on modern human origins : from 1984 to 2012 / Fred H. Smith and James C.M. Ahern -- 1. Africa : the cradle of modern people / Osbjorn M. Pearson -- 2. Crossroads of the Old World : late hominin evolution in western Asia / Robert G. Franciscus and Trenton W. Holliday -- 3. A river runs through it : modern human origins in East Asia / Karen R. Rosenberg and Xinzhi Wu -- 4. Perspectives on the origins of modern Australians / Arthur C. Durband and Michael C. Westaway -- 5. Modern human origins in Central Europe / James C.M. Ahern, Ivor Janković, Jean-Luc Voisin, and Fred H. Smith -- 6. The makers of the early Upper Paleolithic in western Eurasia / Jean-Jacques Hublin -- 7. Neandertal craniofacial growth and development and its relevance for modern human origins / Frank L'Engle Williams -- 8. Energetics and the origin of modern humans / Andrew W. Froehle, Todd R. Yokley, and Steven E. Churchill -- 9. Understanding human cranial variation in light of modern human origins / John H. Relethford -- 10. The relevance of archaic genomes to modern human origins / John Hawks and Zach Throckmorton -- 11. The process of modern human origins : the evolutionary and demographic changes giving rise to modern humans / Rachel Caspari and Milford H. Wolpoff -- 12. The paleobiology of modern human emergence / Erik Trinkaus.

ISBN

• 9780470894095 (hardback)
• 0470894091 (hardback)
• 9781118659878 (eMobi) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118659908 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118659939 (ePdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781118659991 (Obook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013007032

OCLC

860812203

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library