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| 1 | Modern Human Origins: Narrow Focus or Broad Spectrum? | 11 |
| 2 | What Does It Mean to be Modern? | 28 |
| 3 | Systematics in Anthropology: Where Science Confronts the Humanities (and Consistently Loses) | 45 |
| 4 | Through a Glass Darkly: Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research | 60 |
| 5 | Fuzzy Set Theory and Its Implications for Speciation Models | 77 |
| 6 | Problems and Limitations of Absolute Dating in Regard to the Appearance of Modern Humans in Southwestern Europe | 89 |
| 7 | The Near East and Europe: Continuity or Discontinuity? | 107 |
| 8 | Modern Humans at the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in France: Anthropological Data and Perspectives | 117 |
| 9 | The Transition to Anatomically Modern Humans: The Case of Peninsular Italy | 132 |
| 10 | The Human Paleontology of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition on the Iberian Peninsula | 148 |
| 11 | Scenarios for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition: A European Perspective | 161 |
| 12 | The Concept of "Upper Paleolithic Hunters" in Southwestern Europe: A Historical Perspective | 168 |
| 13 | The Transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic in the Cave of El Castillo (Cantabria, Spain) | 177 |
| 14 | Models, Polarization, and Perspectives on Modern Human Origins | 191 |
| 15 | Morphological Evolution, Behavior Change, and the Origins of Modern Humans | 202 |
| 16 | Perspectives on Neanderthals as Ancestors | 220 |
| 17 | The Iberian Situation between 40,000 and 30,000 B.P. in Light of European Models of Migration and Convergence | 235 |
| 18 | Biological and Archaeological Classifications: Boundaries, Biases, and Paradigms in Upper Paleolithic Research | 253 |
| 19 | Paleoanthropological Research Traditions in the Far East | 269 |
| 20 | On the Descent of Modern Humans in East Asia | 283 |
| 21 | Analyzing Modern Human Origins in China | 294 |
| 22 | The Evolution of Modern Human Cranial Diversity: Interpreting the Patterns and Processes | 304 |
| 23 | Thinking about Evolutionary Change: The Polarity of our Ancestors | 319 |
| 24 | Testing the Out of Africa Replacement Hypothesis with Mitochondrial DNA Data | 329 |
| 25 | Population Perspectives on Human Origins Research | 361 |
| 26 | The Time and Place of Human Origins: Implications from Modeling | 369 |
| 27 | Race and Language in Prehistory | 392 |
| 28 | The One and the Many: Epistemological Reflections on the Modern Human Origins Debate | 413 |
| 29 | Philosophy and Paleoanthropology: Some Shared Interests? | 423 |
| References | 437 | |
| Index | 493 | |
| Site/Specimen Index | 503 |
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David Benedetti
reviewed Conceptual issues in modern human origins research on February 03, 2010
Conceptual issues in modern human origins research
Something more than an introduction, this little book gives a cursory summary of the field at the time it was written - the 1980s. Still, it's a pretty good little text, starting with modern philosophy before Marx -- Kant, Descartes, Hegel, etc -- and ending with debates as they were in the 80s. Hegelian Marxists will probably find it too Althusserian, Althusserians too orthodox, but his short engagements -- with language, ideology, science -- are useful, even when you might not agree with him. There's also much to agree with, including his take on science, ideology, and some of his reading of Marx. Probably the most anomalous and uninteresting sections are those on English and analytic philosophers. A book like this would now have to deal with Badiou (a kind of modern-day Althusser) and Zizek (probably the dominant Hegelian philosopher). Still, I'd recommend it as a good place to go one step beyond an introduction. A decent little book. 3.5 stars.
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