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1 online resource (xxv, 454 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations 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. 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? edited by Fred H. Smith and James C.M. Ahern. Edition statement from running title area. The Central European Fossil Record of the Earliest Modern Humans. Includes bibliographical references and index. Human evolution NATURE Animals Mammals SCIENCE Life Sciences Zoology Mammals Human evolution GN281 .O75 2013 599.93/8 SCI027000 Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 2. [edition]. (DLC) 2013007032 (OCoLC)754727734 9781118659991 1118659996 9781118659939 1118659937 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118659991 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118659991 EBLCP 130713 20171106094820.0 ocn852758617 eng