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Pamela Willoughby provides a wide-ranging synthesis of current knowledge about the evolution of fully modern humans in Africa during the Middle Palaeolithic / Middle Stone Age. According to most scholars, our modern ancestors first emerged in Africa and then spread throughout the habitable world. Willoughby brings evidence from mitochondrial DNA, ancient fossils, and archaeological remains (including her own research in Tanzania) to bear on questions regarding the place of human species in nature, the specific origins of Homo Sapiens, and the dispersal of these modern humans throughout Africa and around the globe. She confronts straightforwardly the problems of dating the earliest modern humans, and she discusses the various alternative models of modern human origins, which will be debated for years to come. The Evolution of Modern Humans in Africa is a compelling, thought-provoking book for both students and scholars.
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Table of contents
- African Archaeology Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Table of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 - Modern Human Origins: A People without History
- 2 - Historical Perspectives: The Place of Humans in Nature
- 3 - The Palaeoenvironmental Context: The Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans
- 4 - The Chronological Framework: Dating the Appearance and Spread of Homo sapiens
- 5 - Out of Africa: When and How Many Times? Alternative Models of Modern Human Origins
- 6 - Mitochondrial Eve and the Middle Stone Age: Genetics and Human Variation
- 7 - The Fossil Hominin Evidence
- 8 - The Archaeological Evidence from North Africa
- 9 - The Archaeological Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa I
- 10 - The Archaeological Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa II
- 11 - Conclusions: What Does It Mean to Be a Modern Homo sapiens?
- References
- Index
- About the Author