The Shanidar Neandertals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shanidar Neandertals write by Erik Trinkaus. This book was released on 2014-05-10. The Shanidar Neandertals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Shanidar Neandertals describes the functional morphology of the Neanderthals and their place in human evolution based on a paleontological study of fossils discovered at Shanidar Cave in northeastern Iraq. Functional interpretations are provided that describe and discuss the individual fossils. The phylogenetic implications of the Shanidar specimens are also discussed. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the Neanderthal remains from the Shanidar Cave and the paleontological data obtained from the fossils. The discussion then turns to the history of the excavations in Shanidar Cave and the discoveries of the Neanderthals; morphometrics of the Shanidar remains; and determination of the age and sex of the Shanidar Neanderthals. Subsequent chapters focus on various aspects of the Neanderthal fossils, including the cranial and mandibular remains; the dental remains; the axial skeleton; and the upper and lower limb remains. The immature remains are also described, along with bodily proportions and the estimation of stature. This monograph will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and paleopathologists.
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series)
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) write by Dimitra Papagianni. This book was released on 2013-10-07. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (The Rediscovered Series) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-Magnon In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and spoke. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies have forced a reassessment of the Neanderthals’ place in our own past. For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals evolved in Europe very much in parallel to the Homo sapiens line evolving in Africa, and, when both species made their first forays into Asia, the Neanderthals may even have had the upper hand. Here, Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse look at the Neanderthals through the full dramatic arc of their existence—from their evolution in Europe to their expansion to Siberia, their subsequent extinction, and ultimately their revival in popular novels, cartoons, cult movies, and TV commercials.
The Neandertals
The Neandertals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neandertals write by Erik Trinkaus. This book was released on 1993. The Neandertals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a century, controversy has swirled around the origins and interpretations of Neandertals, placing them at every possible location on our family tree. Now, one of the world's leading experts has collaborated on a sweeping, definitive examination of what we know and how we've come to know it. Drawings and photographs.
Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Neanderthals and Modern Humans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neanderthals and Modern Humans write by Clive Finlayson. This book was released on 2004-03-11. Neanderthals and Modern Humans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it challenges the view that Modern Human 'superiority' caused the extinction of the Neanderthals between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic populations, we must move away from a purely theoretical evolutionary ecology base and realise the importance of wider biogeographic patterns including the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Neanderthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern Humans, where they met, was subtle.
Kindred
Kindred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kindred write by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. This book was released on 2020-08-20. Kindred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
