Titlebook: Handbook of Paleoanthropology; Winfried Henke,Ian Tattersall Living reference work 2020Latest edition

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Ancient DNA,ogical and medical research fields during the last three decades. In particular, historical anthropology and paleoanthropology stand to benefit from direct access to back-dating genetic data, as has already been shown through applications ranging from individual identification to reconstruction of k

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Archaeology, provides insight into human behavior. Five facets of archaeological knowledge can be drawn from the material remains of object-related activities (typological, technological, functional, contextual, and cognitive information), from which other behavioral aspects, like subsistence, settlement, socia

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Charles Darwin, Paleoanthropology, and the Modern Synthesis, or modern synthesis. It shows the close relationship between these evolutionary conceptions and the central goals of paleontology. Darwin was among the few naturalists in the nineteenth century who fully grasped the importance of fossils for an understanding of evolution. In spite of the incomplete

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Chronometric Methods in Paleoanthropology,of the methods currently applied with success are based on the physical phenomenon of radioactivity, which provides the clock. Ongoing developments in the last few decades provide rapid progress in the growing field of chronometric dating. In particular, improvements in time resolution and applicati

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Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle and Late Pleistocene, symbolic communication. Using examples from Africa and Eurasia, the chapter reviews patterns of lithic and organic technology, subsistence, and settlement as potential indicators of modern behavior. These areas of research produce a mosaic picture of advanced technology and behavioral patterns that

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Defining ,,esia and then China expanded the morphological, geographic, and temporal bounds of this species, but it was not until 1960 that . was recognized in Africa. Since that time, . has become among the best sampled species in human evolution and has also come to include fossils from Eurasia and possibly S

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