The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating

Martin Jim Aitken, Chris B. Stringer, Paul A. Mellars (Herausgeber)

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256 Seiten

2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-60406-0 (ISBN)

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This volume of papers delivered to The Royal Society in February of 1992 explores the debate over the "single center" hypothesis of human origins versus "multi-regional evolution." Over the last five years there has been growing support for a recent "Out of Africa" origin of modern humans--based on fresh interpretations of the palaeoanthropological and archaeological evidence, new applications of physical dating techniques to important sites, and a greatly increased genetic data base on recent human variation and its geographical patterning. But there has also been a parallel growth of doubts about interpretations of the new evidence from some workers. This book provides a review of recent progress and allows some of these doubts to be aired and discussed. In addition to the editors, the contributors are O. Bar-Yosef, A. M. Bowcock, P. Brown, H. J. Deacon, L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, J. D. Clark, R. Grun, J.-J. Hublin, A. A. Lin, G. H. Miller, J. L. Mountain, H. P. Schwarcz, N. J. Shackleton, F. H. Smith, and M. Stoneking. Originally published in 1993.
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M. J. Aitken is Professor Emeritus in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at the University of Oxford, "C. B. Stringer" is Head of the Human Origins Group in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, and "P. A. Mellars" is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

Outlining the problem3Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man12Luminescence dating relevant to human origins27Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of the origin of modern man40Pleistocene geochronology and palaeothermometry from protein diagenesis in ostrich eggshells: implications for the evolution of modern humans49Evolution of modern humans: evidence from nuclear DNA polymorphisms69New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor84Southern Africa and modern human origins104Recent human evolution in northwestern Africa118The role of western Asia in modern human origins132African and Asian perspectives on the origins of modern humans148Reconstructing recent human evolution179Archaeology and the population - dispersal hypothesis of modern human origins in Europe196Recent human evolution in East Asia and Australasia217Models and realities in modern human origins: the African fossil evidence234

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2014
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Zusatzinfo	43 illus.
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-691-60406-1 / 0691604061
ISBN-13	978-0-691-60406-0 / 9780691604060
Zustand	Neuware