[eBook Code] The Origins of Modern Humans (eBook Code, 1st)

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 Jankoviæ, 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.