Current Argument on Early Man: Report from a Nobel Symposium [1 ed.] 9781483189345, 9780080249568

Current Argument on Early Man: Report from a Nobel Symposium is a collection of papers that sheds in light into the evol

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Current Argument on Early Man: Report from a Nobel Symposium [1 ed.]
 9781483189345, 9780080249568

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Table of contents :
Introduction
From Linn to Leakey: Six Signposts in Human Evolution
The Excavation of the Cave at Chou-koό-tien in 1927 and 1928: A Postscript
Consensus, Controversy and Complications
How Many Species of Hominids at Lake Turkana?
Early African Hominid Phylogenesis: A Re-evaluation
Homo erectus and Human Evolution in the African Middle Pleistocene
A Survey and Synthesis of the African Hominids of the Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Periods
Early Man, Environment and Tools
Possible Ways of Analysing the Techniques of Early Man
European Homo erectus and the Origin of Homo sapiens
Pleistocene Mammalian Faunas in the Holarctic Region
New Materials of Skeletal Remains of Ancient Peoples in the Territory of the Soviet Union
The Pithecanthropus of Indonesia: Phenotype, Genetics and Ecology
Natural Selection and Genetic Drift in Early Man
Palaeoanthropology in the New China
The Differences between Australopithecus and Homo: Preliminary Conclusions from the Omo Research Expedition's Studies
Casting the Net Wide: A Review of Archaeological Evidence for Early Hominid Land-use and Ecological Relations
Evidence Using Viral Gene Sequences Suggesting an Asian Origin of Man
Major Trends in Human Evolution

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