The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating / / ed. by Martin Jim Aitken, Paul A. Mellars, Chris B. Stringer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aitken, M. J.,; Bar-Yosef, O.,; Beaumont, Peter B.,; Bowcock, Anne M.,; Brown, Peter,; Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca,; Clark, J. Desmond,; Deacon, H. J.,; Grün, Rainer,; Hublin, Jean-Jacques,; Johnson, Beverly,; Jull, A. J. T.,; Lin, Alice A.,; Mellars, P. A.,; Miller, Gifford H.,; Mountain, Joanna L.,; Redd, Alan J.,; Schwarcz, Henry P.,; Sherry, Stephen T.,; Smith, Fred H.,; Stoneking, Mark,; Stringer, C. B.,; Stringer, Christopher B.,; Valladas, H.,; Vigilant, Linda,
• HerausgeberIn: Aitken, Martin Jim,; Mellars, Paul A.,; Stringer, Chris B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 257
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 43 illus.

This volume of papers delivered to The Royal Society in February of 1992 explores the debate over the "single center" hypothesis of human origins versus "multi-regional evolution." Over the last five years there has been growing support for a recent "Out of Africa" orig...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Outlining the Problem
• Uranium-Series Dating and the Origin of Modern Man
• Luminescence Dating Relevant to Human Origins
• Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of the Origin of Modern Man
• Pleistocene Geochronology and Palaeothermometry from Protein Diagenesis in Ostrich Eggshells: Implications for the Evolution of Modern Humans
• Evolution of Modern Humans: Evidence From Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms
• New Approaches to Dating Suggest a Recent Age for the Human mtDNA Ancestor
• Southern Africa and Modern Human Origins
• Recent Human Evolution in Northwestern Africa
• The Role of Western Asia in Modern Human Origins
• African and Asian Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans
• Reconstructing Recent Human Evolution
• Archaeology and the Population-Dispersal Hypothesis of Modern Human Origins in Europe
• Recent Human Evolution in East Asia and Australasia
• Models and Realities in Modern Human Origins: The African Fossil Evidence