The Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia
Author | : Takeru Akazawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fossil hominids |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Takeru Akazawa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fossil hominids |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yousuke Kaifu |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 1019 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1623492777 |
Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world. Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this book gathers the work of archaeologists from the Pacific Rim of Asia, Australia, and North America, to address the relative lack of attention given to the emergence of modern human behavior as manifested in Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa.
Author | : John F. Hoffecker |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231543743 |
Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than half a million years ago and their later spread throughout the world. Leaving no stone unturned, John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a “major transition” in the evolution of living systems in terms of fundamental changes in the role of non-genetic information. Modern Humans synthesizes recent findings from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origin and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the critical role of genetic and non-genetic forms of information in living systems as well as how changes in the storage, transmission, and translation of information underlie major transitions in evolution. He also draws on information and complexity theory to explain the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa several hundred thousand years ago and the rapid and unprecedented spread of our species into a variety of environments in Australia and Eurasia, including the Arctic and Beringia, beginning between 75,000 and 60,000 years ago. This magisterial work will appeal to all with an interest in the ever-fascinating field of human evolution.
Author | : Tōkyō Daigaku. Sōgō Kenkyū Shiryōkan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Demography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicole Boivin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2017-05-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1107164141 |
A unique, interdisciplinary and up-to-date treatment exploring human migration and its role in creating novel ecosystems over the long term.
Author | : Michael D. Petraglia |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2007-05-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1402055625 |
This is the first volume of its kind on prehistoric cultures of South Asia. The book brings together archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. New theories and methodologies presented provide new interpretations about the cultural history and evolution of populations in South Asia.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2010-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309148383 |
The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture. The Earth's geological record suggests that some evolutionary events were coincident with substantial changes in African and Eurasian climate, raising the possibility that critical junctures in human evolution and behavioral development may have been affected by the environmental characteristics of the areas where hominins evolved. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution explores the opportunities of using scientific research to improve our understanding of how climate may have helped shape our species. Improved climate records for specific regions will be required before it is possible to evaluate how critical resources for hominins, especially water and vegetation, would have been distributed on the landscape during key intervals of hominin history. Existing records contain substantial temporal gaps. The book's initiatives are presented in two major research themes: first, determining the impacts of climate change and climate variability on human evolution and dispersal; and second, integrating climate modeling, environmental records, and biotic responses. Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil sites and to broaden the geographic and temporal sampling of the fossil and archeological record; a comprehensive and integrative scientific drilling program in lakes, lake bed outcrops, and ocean basins surrounding the regions where hominins evolved and a major investment in climate modeling experiments for key time intervals and regions that are critical to understanding human evolution.
Author | : Robin Dennell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107017858 |
This volume summarizes what is - and is not - known about the earliest evidence of our species outside Africa, from Arabia to Australia. Most books on the origins of "modern human behavior" and the expansion of our species across the world focus on evidence from Africa, Europe, and the Levant, which have been extensively researched. This book focuses instead on the important areas of southern Asia such as Arabia and India, as well as evidence from Australia, which deserve far wider attention than they have hereto received.
Author | : Anek Ram Sankhyan |
Publisher | : Serials Publications |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Human ecology |
ISBN | : 9788183873185 |
Present Book Covers A Wide Range Of Aspects On Human Bio-Cultural Evolution, Right From The Ancestors, Through The Stone Age Hominins, Early Modern Humans, And The Recent Primitive Human Groups, Their Ecology, Dispersals, And Diversity And Adaptations In Asia, More Specifically South And Eastern Asia. The Book Would Serve As A Good Reference As Well General Reading Material For Palaeontologists, Palaeoanthropologusts, Archaeologists, Planners Of The Marginalized Groups, All Scholars And Student Interested In Understanding The Story Of The Speaks Something Different Than What We Know Of The African And European Perspectives.
Author | : Sally C. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 599 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107019958 |
This book reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.