The Origins of Modern Humans : Biology Reconsidered

 Content: Contributors ix    Introduction: Thoughts on Modern Human Origins: From 1984 to 2012 xi   Fred H. Smith and James C. M. Ahern    1 Africa: The Cradle of Modern People 1   Osbjorn M. Pearson    2 Crossroads of the Old World: Late Hominin Evolution in Western Asia 45   Robert G. Franciscus and Trenton W. Holliday    3 A River Runs through It: Modern Human Origins in East Asia 89   Karen R. Rosenberg and Xinzhi Wu    4 Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Australians 123   Arthur C. Durband and Michael C. Westaway    5 Modern Human Origins in Central Europe 151    James C. M. Ahern, Ivor Jankoviae, Jean-Luc Voisin, and Fred H. Smith    6 The Makers of the Early Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia 223   Jean-Jacques Hublin    7 Neandertal Craniofacial Growth and Development and Its Relevance for Modern Human Origins 253   Frank L'Engle Williams    8 Energetics and the Origin of Modern Humans 285   Andrew W. Froehle, Todd R. Yokley, and Steven E. Churchill    9 Understanding Human Cranial Variation in Light of Modern Human Origins 321   John H. Relethford    10 The Relevance of Archaic Genomes to Modern Human Origins 339   John Hawks and Zach Throckmorton    11 The Process of Modern Human Origins: The Evolutionary and Demographic Changes Giving Rise to Modern Humans 355   Rachel Caspari and Milford H. Wolpoff    12 The Paleobiology of Modern Human Emergence 393   Erik Trinkaus    Index 435   The color plate section can be found between pages 242 and 243.