Species, Populations, and Assimilation in Later Human Evolution

A Companion to Biological Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-378

  Smith, Fred H ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaic human adaptation at higher latitudes; Cladogenesis, essentially allopatric speciation, form of speciation peripheral populations of a species becoming physically isolated; Classification of all post Homo erectus hominins as members of Homo sapiens; Early modern Europeans and pattern of modern human origins; Heidelberg specimens from Kabwe (Kabwe), Zambia; Heidelbergs and origin of regional human diversity; Neandertals, distinct form of Homo sapiens in later Pleistocene, best known intensely studied fossil human sample; Species, populations and assimilation in later human evolution

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EID: 84886854565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320039.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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