Conceptual issues in modern human origins research
G. A. Clark and C. M. Willermet, editors
Publisher: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1997.
ISBN: 0202020401
DDC: 573.2
LCC: GN281
Edition: (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-492) and indexes.
Modern human origins: narrow focus or broad spectrum? /C. Loring
Brace --What does it mean to be modern? /Milford H. Wolpoff and
Rachel Caspari --Systematics in anthropology: where science confronts
the humanities and consistently loses /Jonathan Marks --Through a
glass darkly: conceptual issues in modern human origins research /G.
A. Clark --Fuzzy set theory and its implications for speciation
models /Catherine M. Willerment and Brett Hill --Problems and
limitations of absolute dating in regard to the appearance of modern
humans in southwestern Europe /H. P. Schwarcz --Near East and Europe:
continuity or discontinuity? /Bernard Vandermeersch --Modern humans
at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in France: anthropological
data and perspectives /Dominique Gambier --Transition to anatomically
modern humans: the case of peninsular Italy /Amilcare Bietti --Human
paleontology of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition on the
Iberian Peninsula /Mariá Dolores Garralda --Scenarios for the Middle
to Upper paleolithic transition: a European perspective
/Jean-Phillippe Rigaud --concept of Upper Paleolithic hunters in
southwestern Europe: a historica perspective /J. Gonzaĺez Echegaray
--Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic in the Cave of El
Castillo Cantabria, Spain /Victoria Cabrera Valdeś, Manuel Hoyos
Goḿez, and Federico Bernaldo de Quiroś Guidotti --Models,
polarization, and perspectives on modern human origins /Günter Bräuer
and Chris Stringer --Morphological evolution, behavior change, and
the origins of modern humans /Steven E. Churchill --Perspectives on
Neanderthals as ancestors / David W. Frayer --Iberian situation
between 40,000 and 30,000 B.P. in light of European models of
migration and convergence /Lawrence G. Straus --Biological and
archaeological classifications: boundaries, biases, and paradigms in
Upper Paleolithic research /Betsy Schumann --Paleoanthropological
research traditons in the Far East /Geoffrey G. Pope --On the descent
of modern humans in East Asia /Wu Xinzhi --Analyzing modern human
origins in China /Susan G. Keates --Evolution of modern human cranial
diversity: interpreting the patterns and processes /Marta Mirazoʹn
Lahr --Thinking about evolutionary change: the polarity of our
ancestors /Colin P. Groves --Testing the out of Africa replacement
hypothesis with mitochondrial DNA data /Alan R. Templeton
--Population perspectives on human origins research /Henry Harpending
and John Relethford --Time and place of human origins: implications
from modeling /Charles E. Oxnard --Race and language in prehistory
/Vincent M. Sarich --One and the many: epistemological reflections on
the modern human origins debate /Jane Maienschein -- Philosophy and
paleoanthropology: some shared interests? /Michael Ruse.
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