The East Mediterranean Levant is a focal point for debate about evolutionary continuity
among Late Pleistocene hominin populations. Changes in the Levantine Middle and Upper …

This review summarizes current thinking about the concept of modern behavior in the
context of Neandertals and anatomically modern humans. The decoupling of modern …

Paleolithic archaeologists conceptualize the uniqueness of Homo sapiens in terms of
“behavioral modernity,” a quality often conflated with behavioral variability. The former is …

This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James
Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he …

It is a challenge to make sense of who we are. Where did we come from? Why are we so
radically different from other animals and so surprisingly similar to others? Why do our …

The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject
of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …

Fully updated, the second edition of Neuropsychology of Art offers a fascinating exploration
of the brain regions and neuronal systems which support artistic creativity, talent and …

The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and
Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor …

A principal behavioral issue in paleoanthropology centers on the degree to which the
behaviors of Neanderthals and modern humans may have differed. Efforts to address this …

Given the complex and multidimensional nature of human evolution, we need to develop
theoretical and methodological frameworks to account for and model the dynamic feedbacks …