The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating
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The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating
By (Author) Martin Jim Aitken
Edited by Chris B. Stringer
Edited by Paul A. Mellars
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
576.8
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Paperback
256
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
340g
Description
This volume of papers delivered to The Royal Society in February of 1992 explores the debate over the "single center" hypothesis of human origins versus "multi-regional evolution." Over the last five years there has been growing support for a recent "Out of Africa" origin of modern humans--based on fresh interpretations of the palaeoanthropological
Author Bio
M. J. Aitken is Professor Emeritus in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at the University of Oxford, "C. B. Stringer" is Head of the Human Origins Group in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, and "P. A. Mellars" is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
