Since the Darwinian revolution, when traditional West ern ideas about humanity's
supernatural origins ceased to be intellectually respectable, scientists have been struggling …

Modern scientific theories of human origins can be traced directly back to the discoveries,
arguments, and theories of the seventeenth century. But as we have seen in the first part of …

Early man has been in the news a lot in the past few years. He has made the cover of Time
and is the subject of books and television documentaries. The field of paleoanthropology …

This volume is based on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring System atics
Symposium held in Chicago on May 11, 1991. The financial support of Ray and Jean Auel …

We have puzzled over why this long-lasting debate about modern human origins has been
so intense. The content and tone of this reply to our AA article suggest some answers to this …

IN the sixties of the last century, two men examined the course of human prehistory, as it was
then known, and proceeded to come to diametrically opposed conclu? sions. There would …

This article shows the empirical, theoretical, and practical, and practical obsolescence of the
concept" primitive" except in some most restricted sense, such as application to peoples and …

Causal explanations involve both narrative and laws. To explain some event as the effect of
other events, we must at least demonstrate (1) that the cause and effect both took place, with …

THOSE whose common preoccupation is with ideas are wont to cherish the illusion of
originality. But if the history of mental contents were disclosed we should find that most of …

Just a few years ago I heard debated by some leading authorities, the problem of
distinguishing the earliest Man from his fellow primates. One criterion suggested was brain …