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In this volume we analyze the anthropological and biological disagreements and the positions taken on the origins of modern humans, point out difficultieswith the inter pretations, and suggest that the concept of the human origin can be explained only when we first attempt to define Homo sapiens sapiens.
I. Introduction.- 1 • The Problem of Modern Human Origins.- II. What are Modern Humans?.- 2 • The Contributions of Southwest Asia to the Study of the Origin of Modern Humans.- 3 • Hominids, Energy, Environment, and Behavior in the Late Pleistocene.- 4 • Behavioral and Cultural Changes at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Western Europe.- 5 • Ancestral Lifeways in Eurasia — The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Records.- 6 • New Advances in the Field of Ice Age Art.- III. African Center of Origin.- 7 • Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution: Our One Lucky Mother.- 8 • Out of Africa — A Personal History.- IV. Multiregional Hypothesis.- 9 • Multiregional Evolution: A World-Wide Source for Modern Human Populations.- 10 • Archaic and Modern Homo sapiens in the Contact Zones: Evolutionary Schematics and Model Predictions.- 11 • Samples, Species, and Speculations in the Study of Modern Human Origins.- V. Synopsis and Prospectus.- 12 • A Chronostratigraphic and Taxonomic Framework of the Origins of Modern Humans.
Matthew H. Nitecki, Jennifer A. Kitchell, Chicago) Nitecki, Matthew H. (, Field Museum, University of Michigan) Kitchell, Jennifer A. (Assistant Curator, Museum of Paleontology, and Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Assistant Curator, Museum of Paleontology, and Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences