Continuity or replacement : controversies in Homo sapiens evolution
This volume is largely the result of a 1988 symposium on 'Controversies in Homo sapiens evolution', held in Zagreb under the auspices of the [i.e. 12th] International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences."--Back cover
edited by Günter Bräuer, Fred H. Smithill. ; 26 cmAt head of title: Selected papers from the symposium on controversies in Homo sapiens evolution/Zagreb/July 1988"This volume is largely the result of a 1988 symposium on 'Controversies in Homo sapiens evolution', held in Zagreb under the auspices of the [i.e. 12th] International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences."--Back coverTable of ContentsPrefaceCladistics and later Pleistocene human evolution1Replacement, continuity and the origin of Homo sapiens9Theories of modern human origins25A mitochondrial perspective on replacement or continuity in human evolution65African Pygmies have the more ancestral gene pool when studied for Y-chromosome DNA haplotypes75Africa's place in the evolution of Homo sapiens83The Middle Stone Age with reference to Tanzania99A first report on the ER-3884 cranial remains from Ileret/East Turkana, Kenya111The origins of modern people: The evidence from Klasies River121Biological relationships between Upper Pleistocene and Holocene populations in southern Africa131The role of continuity in modern human origins145Defining modern humans: A multivariate approach157The persistence of Neanderthal features in post-Neanderthal Europeans179Homo sapiens sapiens remains from the island of Crete189The evolution of Homo sapiens as indicated by features of the postcranium209Paleolithic archaeology, ancient behavior and the transition to modern Homo219Neanderthal cognition and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition231Social transformations at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The implications of the European record247Middle Palaeolithic chronology and the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic in southwest Asia261The origin of anatomically modern humans in east Asia273The human colonisation of the Australian continent289Author index303Subject index309
