The Origins of Modern Humans – Biology Reconsidered

<p>Contributors ix<br /> <br /> Introduction: Thoughts on Modern Human Origins: From 1984 to 2012 xi<br /> Fred H. Smith and James C. M. Ahern<br /> <br /> 1 Africa: The Cradle of Modern People 1<br /> Osbjorn M. Pearson<br /> <br /> 2 Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia 45<br /> Robert G. Franciscus and Trenton W. Holliday<br /> <br /> 3 A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia 89<br /> Karen R. Rosenberg and Xinzhi Wu<br /> <br /> 4 Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians 123<br /> Arthur C. Durband and Michael C. Westaway<br /> <br /> 5 Modern Human Origins in Central Europe 151<br /> James C. M. Ahern, Ivor Jankovi&aelig;, Jean–Luc Voisin, and Fred H. Smith<br /> <br /> 6 The Makers of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia 223<br /> Jean–Jacques Hublin<br /> <br /> 7 Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and Its Relevance for Modern Human Origins 253<br /> Frank L Engle Williams<br /> <br /> 8 Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans 285<br /> Andrew W. Froehle, Todd R. Yokley, and Steven E. Churchill<br /> <br /> 9 Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern Human Origins 321<br /> John H. Relethford<br /> <br /> 10 The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins 339<br /> John Hawks and Zach Throckmorton<br /> <br /> 11 The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary and Demographic Changes Giving Rise to Modern Humans 355<br /> Rachel Caspari and Milford H. Wolpoff<br /> <br /> 12 The Paleobiology of Modern Human Emergence 393<br /> Erik Trinkaus<br /> <br /> Index 435<br /> The color plate section can be found between pages 242 and 243.</p>