The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating (Princeton Legacy Library, 257)

Aitken, Martin Jim [Editor]; Stringer, Chris B. [Editor]; Mellars, Paul A. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0691032424 / ISBN 13: 9780691032429

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1993

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• Titolo: The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating (Princeton Legacy Library, 257)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691032424
• ISBN 13: 9780691032429
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 21 once

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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. 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.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contenuti

	Outlining the problem	3
	Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man	12
	Luminescence dating relevant to human origins	27
	Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of the origin of modern man	40
	Pleistocene geochronology and palaeothermometry from protein diagenesis in ostrich eggshells: implications for the evolution of modern humans	49
	Evolution of modern humans: evidence from nuclear DNA polymorphisms	69
	New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor	84
	Southern Africa and modern human origins	104
	Recent human evolution in northwestern Africa	118
	The role of western Asia in modern human origins	132
	African and Asian perspectives on the origins of modern humans	148
	Reconstructing recent human evolution	179
	Archaeology and the population - dispersal hypothesis of modern human origins in Europe	196
	Recent human evolution in East Asia and Australasia	217
	Models and realities in modern human origins: the African fossil evidence	234