The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating
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The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating
About this book
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. Grün, 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- P. A. Mellars, M.J. Aitken and C. B. Stringer - Outlining the Problem
- Henry P. Schwarcz - Uranium-Series Dating and the Origin of Modern Man
- M. J. Aitken and H. Valladas - Luminescence Dating Relevant to Human Origins
- Henry P. Schwarcz and Rainer Grün - Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of the Origin of Modern Man
- Gifford H. Miller, Peter B. Beaumont, A.J. T. Jull and Beverly Johnson - Pleistocene Geochronology and Palaeothermometry from Protein Diagenesis in Ostrich Eggshells: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Humans
- Joanna L. Mountain, Alice A. Lin, Anne M. Bowcock and L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza - Evolution of Modern Humans: Evidence from Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms
- Mark Stoneking, Stephen T. Sherry, Alan J. Redd and Linda Vigilant - New Approaches to Dating Suggest a Recent Age for the Human MtDNA Ancestor
- H.J. D Eacon - Southern Africa and Modern Human Origins
- Jean-Jacques Hublin - Recent Human Evolution in Northwestern Africa
- O. Bar-Yosef - The Role of Western Asia in Modern Human Origins
- J. Desmond Clark - African and Asian Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans
- Christopher B. Stringer - Reconstructing Recent Human Evolution
- P. A. Mellars - Archaeology and the Population-Dispersal Hypothesis of Modern Human Origins in Europe
- Peter Brown - Recent Human Evolution in East Asia and Australasia
- Fred H. Smith - Models and Realities in Modern Human Origins: The African Fossil Evidence