The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691085390 ISBN 13: 9780691085395

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This major interdisciplinary work developed from an international conference held at Cambridge University in 1987. Fifty-five of the world's leading authorities from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, human evolution, and genetics met for the first time to discuss all aspects of the biological and behavioural origins of modern human populations. The volume brings together their papers, revised and updated in the light of discussion at the conference itself.


The book features the results of new work by geneticists working on mitochondrial DNA, globin polymorphisms, and a Y-chromosome DNA phylogeny, and there are general reviews of the genetic evidence for the evolution of modern humans. Other topics covered include palaeoecological models of human origins; sophisticated modeling of population expansions and replacements; changes in technology, subsistence and social patterns; and the origins of human language and other unique aspects of human behaviour. This is the only book which integrates the remarkable new genetic evidence with the more conventional approaches of archaeologists and anthropologists. No other work provides such an exhaustive and wide-ranging account of modern human origins on a world-wide scale.

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Review

"There is little doubt that this is an important book for all paleaoanthropologists and archaeologists--it is international in its scope and broad in its treatment of the exciting issues central to modern thinking in these fields." (Nature)

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691085390
• ISBN 13: 9780691085395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Mellars Paul A.