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

Other author Clark, Geoffrey A.
Other author Willermet, C. M. (Catherine M.), 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©1997.
Descriptionxiii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Human beings--Origin.
Human evolution--Research.
Human evolution--Philosophy.

SeriesEvolutionary foundations of human behavior
Evolutionary foundations of human behavior. ^A400549
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 437-492) and indexes.
LCCN 96033415
ISBN0202020398 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0202020401 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN281 .C586 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold