Genomic analyses of Neanderthals have previously provided insights into their population history and relationship to modern humans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, but the social organization of …
This review is a follow up to Grün et al.(2006): Direct Dating of Human Fossils. Since that time there has been progress on the experimental side of the geochronological analyses …
Although a rich record of Pleistocene human-associated archaeological assemblages exists, the scarcity of hominin fossils often impedes the understanding of which hominins …
Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …
Neanderthals disappeared sometime between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago. Until recently, Neanderthals were understood to have been predominantly meat-eaters; however, a …
It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a …
The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …
What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the …
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our …