Bones, Stones and Molecules: "Out of Africa" and Human Origins
- ISBN-10
- 0080488412
- ISBN-13
- 9780080488417
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-07-08
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Authors
- David W. Cameron, Colin P. Groves
Description
Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution of the human skull and face and focuses on the significance of the Australian record. The book analyzes important new discoveries that have occurred recently and examines evidence that is not available elsewhere. Cameron and Groves argue that the existing evidence supports a recent origin for modern humans from Africa. They also specifically relate these two theories to interpretations of the origins of the first Australians. The book provides an up-to-date interpretation of the fossil, archaeological and the molecular evidence, specifically as it relates to Asia, and Australia in particular. Readily accessible to the layperson and professional Provides concise coverage of current scientific evidence Presents a robust computer-generated model of human speciation over the last 7 million years Well illustrated with figures and photographs of important fossil specimens Presents a synthesis of great ape and human evolution
Get the book
Similar books
-
Bones, Stones, and Molecules: "out of Africa" and Human Origins
By David W. Cameron, Colin P. Groves... S., Pickering, T. & Moore, J. 2002. Meat-eating by the fourth African ape. In C.B. Stanford & H.T. Bunn (eds.). Meat-Eating and Human Evolution, pp. 179–195. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Schwartz, J.H. & Tattersall, I. 2002.
-
Left in the Dark
By Tony Wright, Graham GynnThis is a totally new way of looking at the evolution of the human brain.
-
The Bone Readers: Science and Politics in Human Origins Research
By Cheryl Jones, Claudio Tuniz, Richard GillespieThe Bone Readers are a dedicated group of scholars who study the earliest human remains, their chemistry and DNA, their extinct floral and faunal contemporaries, and the geologic layers in which they were found.
-
How Compassion Made Us Human: The Evolutionary Origins of Tenderness, Trust and Morality
By Penny SpikinsP. Groves (2004) Bones, stones, and molecules: 'Out of Africa' and human origins. Amsterdam: elsevier/Academic. walker, A., and P. Shipman (1996) The wisdom of bones: In search of human origins. london: weidenfeld and nicolson.
-
21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook
By H. James BirxSound also marks sacred spaces through pilgrimages and festival rituals, among other religious practices (Beck, 2006; ... of sound seeking to differentiate between sacred practices and secular forms of expression (Baily, 2003).
-
Carbon and Its Domestication
By A.M. MannionArchean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes. ... Bones, Stones and Molecules. Elsevier: Amsterdam. ... From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. Blackwell: Oxford.
-
Future Primitive Revisited
By John Zerzan10. J.G.D. Clark, Economic Prehistory: Papers on Archaeology by Grahame Clark (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 416. Elias J. Bickerman, "Mesopotamia," in John A. Garraty and Peter Gay, ...
-
The Emergence of Humans: An Exploration of the Evolutionary Timeline
By Patricia J. Ash, David J. RobinsonSeiffert, E.R., Simons, E.L., Clyde, W.C., Rossie, J.B., Attia, Y., Bown, T.M., Chatrath, P. and Mathison, M.E.(2005a) Basal Anthropoids from Egypt and the Antiquity of Africa's Higher Primate Radiation. Science, 310, 300–304.
-
The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play it Safe and Others Risk it All
By Nick Tasler6 David W. Cameron and Colin P. Groves's Bones, Stones and Molecules: “Out of Africa” and Human Origins (Burlington, MA: Elsevier, 2004) is a very accessible review of the research surrounding human evolution and the Out of Africa ...
-
Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses
By Sverker JohanssonThe Violet Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”. Dordrecht: Kluwer http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Cullen.html Culotta, E. (1999a). Anthropologists probe bones, stones, and molecules. Science 284:1109-1111 Culotta, E. (1999b).