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Springer Origins Of Anatomically Modern Humans 1994 Edition by Doris V. Nitecki Matthew H. Nitecki
This volume is based on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring System atics Symposium held in Chicago on May 11 1991. The financial support of Ray and Jean Auel and of the Field Museum is gratefully acknowledged. When we teach or write we present only those elements that support our arguments. We avoid all weak points of our debate and all the uncer tainties of our models. Thus we offer hypotheses as facts. Multiauthored books like ours which simultaneously advocate and question diverse views avoid the pitfalls and lessen the impact of indoctrination. In this volume we analyze the anthropological and biological disagreements and the positions taken on the origins of modern humans point out difficultieswith the inter pretations and suggest that the concept of the human origin can be explained only when we first attempt to define Homo sapiens sapiens. One of the major controversies in physical anthropology concerns the geographic origin of anatomically modern humans. It is undisputed due to the extensive research of the Leakeys and their colleagues that the family Hominidae originated in Africa but the geographic origin of Homo sapiens sapiens is less concretely accepted. Two schools of thought existon this topic. Table of contents : Introduction: The Problem of Modern Human Origins; R.G. Klein. What Are Modern Humans? The Contributions of Southwest Asia to the Study of the Origin of Modern Humans; O. Bar-Yosef. Hominids Energy Environment and Behavior in the Late Pleistocene; A.J. Jelinek. Behavioral and Cultural Changes at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Western Europe; C. Farizy. Ancestral Lifeways in Eurasia; O. Soffer. New Advances in the Field of Ice Age Art; P.G. Bahn. African Centers of Origin: Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution; R.L. Cann et al. Out of Africa; C.B. Stringer. Multiregional Hypothesis: Multiregional Evolution; M.H. Wolpoff et al. Archaic and Modern Homo sapiens in the Contact Zones; T. Simmons. Samples Species and Speculations in the Study of Modern Human Origins; F.H. Smith. Synopsis and Prospectus: A Chronstratigraphic and Taxonomic Framework of the Origins of Modern Humans; F.C. Howell. Index.