| Description |
vi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
(cont.) Archeology and the population-dispersal hypothesis of modern human origins in Europe / P. A. Mellars -- Recent human evolution in East Asia and Australasia / Peter Brown -- Models and realities in modern human origins: the African fossil evidence / Fred H. Smith |
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Outlining the problem / P. A. Mellars, M. J. Aitken and C. B. Stringer -- Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man / Henry P. Schwarcz -- Luminescence dating relevant to human origins / M. J. Aitken and H. Valladas -- Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of the origin of modern man / Henry P. Schwarcz and Rainer Grün -- Pleistocene geochronology and palaeothermometry from protein diagenesis in ostrich egshells : implications for the evolution of modern humans / Gifford H. Miller ... [et al.] -- Evolution of modern humans : evidence from nuclear DNA polymorphisms / Joanna L. Mountain .. [et al.] -- New approaches to dating suggest a recent age for the human mtDNA ancestor / Mark Stoneking ... [et al.] -- Southern Africa and modern human origins / H. J. Deacon -- Recent human evolution in northwestern Africa / Jean-Jacques Hublin -- The role of western Asia in modern human origins / O. Bar-Yosef -- African and Asian perspectives on the origins of modern humans / J. Desmond Clark -- Reconstructing recent human evolution / Christopher B. Stringer |
| Notes |
Discussion held Feb. 26-27, 1992 |
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Originally published: London : Royal Society, 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Originally published: Philosophical transactions : biological sciences, v. 337, no. 1280 of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, series B. London : Royal Society, 1992 |
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committed to retain 20160630 20310630 EAST http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials{Smith copy: EAST commitment} MNS |
| Subject |
Archaeological dating -- Congresses.
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Human evolution -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Aitken, M. J. (Martin Jim)
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Mellars, Paul.
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Stringer, Chris, 1947-
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| LC no. |
92038969 |
| ISBN |
0691032424 (alk. paper) |
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