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Bones, Stones and Molecules - "Out of Africa" and Human Origins
David Cameron and Colin Groves
Academic Press
July 2004
Paperback 400 pp ISBN 0121569330
£22.99
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- 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
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.
Readership: Researchers, students, and the general layperson interested in evolution, primatology,
or physical anthropology.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evolution of the Miocene Great Apes
- 3. The Later Miocene and Early Pliocene Hominids
- 4. Our Kind of Hominins
- 5. A Systematic Scheme for the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Hominids
- 6. The First African Exodus: The Emergence of Early Homo in Europe and Asia
- 7. Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene
- 8. €The Grisly Folk€: The Emergence of the Neanderthals
- 9. The Second African Exodus: The Emergence of Modern Humans
- 10. The Emergence of Modern Humans in Asia and Australia
- 11. Epilogue
- Appendix: Detailed Description of Characters (DWC)
- References
- Index
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