Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

The question of the mode of origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens) has dominated
palaeoanthropological debate over the last decade. This review discusses the main models …

Archaeology's main contribution to the debate over the origins of modern humans has been
investigating where and when modern human behavior is first recognized in the …

The “Weak Garden of Eden” model for the origin and dispersal of modern humans
(Harpendinget al., 1993) posits that modern humans spread into separate regions from a …

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor
Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in …

Why do people resort to plastic surgery to look young? Why are stepchildren at greatest risk
of fatal abuse? Why do we prefer gossip to algebra? Why must Dogon wives live alone in a …

The question of how modern human behaviour emerged from pre-human hominid
behaviour is central to discussions of human evolution. This important book argues that the …

The fossil record suggests that modern human morphology evolved in Africa between
150,000 and 50,000 years ago, when the sole inhabitants of Eurasia were the Neanderthals …

Body proportions covary with climate, apparently as the result of climatic selection.
Ontogenetic research and migrant studies have demonstrated that body proportions are …

Recent comparisons between anatomically modern humans and ancient genomes of other
hominins have raised the tantalizing, and hotly debated, possibility of hybridization …