Neanderthals and Modern Humans

An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective

AvClive Finlayson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

Del 38 i serien Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

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Beskrivning

Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-03-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521820875

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

CLIVE FINLAYSON is Director, Museums and Heritage in the Government of Gibraltar, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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Review of the hardback: '… valuable for its synthesis of the climatic backdrop to later human evolution, which reminds us of the remarkable climatic challenges that our Pleistocene predecessors had to face.' Science

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Human evolution in the Pleistocene; 2. Biogeographical patterns; 3. Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions; 4. The modern human-Neanderthal problem; 5. Comparative behaviour and ecology of Neanderthals and modern humans; 6. The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last Glacial Cycle; 7. The modern human colonization and the Neanderthal extinction; 8. The survival of the weakest; References; Index.