<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <link href="https://bactra.org/plain-style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <title>Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology</title>        </head> <body>   <P> <P></P><!-- Access to MathJax through the version I'm hosting on bactra.org !--><!-- but only IF mathmode is activated via meta_mathmode !-->  <script> window.MathJax = {  tex: {    inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']],    processEscapes: true,    autoload: {      color: [],      colorv2: ['color']    },    packages: {'[+]': ['noerrors']}  },  options: {    ignoreHtmlClass: 'tex2jax_ignore',    processHtmlClass: 'tex2jax_process'  },  loader: {    load: ['[tex]/noerrors']  }};</script>      <cite><a href="http://bactra.org/notebooks">Notebooks</a></cite> <div class="text"><div class="left"><h2>Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology</h2> <i><a href="faq.html#5.4">Last update</a>: 21 Apr 2025 21:17</i><br><i><a href="faq.html#5.4">First version</a>: </i> <hr> <P>  <P>Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder, for yet another subject I findinteresting but don't really understand.  (The fact that I write this, and thengo on to recommend things I've read, tells you pretty much everything you needto know about these notebooks.) <P>See also:	<a href="evolution.html">Evolution</A>;	<a href="evol-psych.html">Evolutionary Psychology</a>;	<a href="historical-genetics.html">Historical Genetics</a> <ul>Recommended:	<li>William Calvin, <cite>The Ascent of Mind</cite>	<li>Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, Mar&iacute;a Victoria Hern&agrave;ndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare and Michael Tomasello,"Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1146282"><cite>Science</citE> <strong>317</strong> (2007): 1360--1366</a>	<li>Sarah Blaffer Hrdy		<ul>		<li><cite><a href="https://doi-org.cmu.idm.oclc.org/10.4159/9780674038875">The Woman Who Never Evolved</a></cite>		<li><cite>Mother Nature</cite>		</ul>	<li>Adam Powell, Stephen Shennan and Mark G. Thomas,"Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior",<ahref="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1170165"><cite>Science</cite> <strong>324</strong>(2009): 1298--1301</a>	<li>Wiktor Stoczkowski, <cite>Explaining Human Origins: Myth,Imagination, and Conjecture</cite> [Or, whydoes <a href="lucretius.html">Lucretius</a> sound so startlingly modern?My <a href="../weblog/algae-2008-02.html#stoczkowski">comments</a>]	</ul> <ul>To read:	<li>Alan Barnard, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/9780521749299">Social Anthropology and Human Origins</a></cite>	<li>Robert A. Barton and Chris Venditti, "Human frontal lobes are not relatively large", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1215723110"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>110</strong>(2013): 9001--9006</a>	<li>Kyle S. Brown, Curtis W. Marean, Zenobia Jacobs, BenjaminJ. Schoville, Simen Oestmo, Erich C. Fisher, Jocelyn Bernatchez, PanagiotisKarkanas and Thalassa Matthews, "An early and enduring advanced technologyoriginating 71,000 years ago in SouthAfrica", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11660"><cite>Nature</cite> <strong>491</strong>(2012): 590--593</a>	<li>Susan Cachel, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521829429">Primate and Human Evolution</a></cite>	<li>Anders Eriksson and Lia Betti and Andrew D. Friend  and Lycett, Stephen J. and Singarayer, Joy S. and von Cramon-Taubadel, Noreen and Valdes, Paul J. and Balloux, Francois and Manica, Andrea, "Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans",<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209494109">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>109</strong> (2012): 16089--16094</a>	<li>Patrick D. Evans, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Eric J. Vallender, RichardR. Hudson, and Bruce T. Lahn, "Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brainsize gene <em>microcephalin</em> introgressed into <em>Homo sapiens</em> froman archaic <em>Homo</em>lineage", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606966103"><cite>Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>103</strong> (2007):18178--18183</a> [Not from the Monolith?]	<li>Dean Falk and Kathleen R. Gibson (eds.), <cite>EvolutionaryAnatomy of the Primate Cerebral Cortex</cite>	<li>Clive Finlayson, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521820871">Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective</a></cite>	<li>Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal, "Context modulatessignal meaning in primate communication",<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603565104"><cite>Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>104</strong> (2007):1581--1586</a>	<li>Michael Haslam, Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Victoria Ling, Susana Carvalho, Ignacio de la Torre, April DeStefano, Andrew Du, Bruce Hardy, Jack Harris, Linda Marchant, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, William McGrew, Julio Mercader, Rafael Mora, Michael Petraglia, Helene Roche, Elisabetta Visalberghi and Rebecca Warren,"Primate archaeology",<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08188"><cite>Nature</cite> <strong>460</strong>(2009): 339--344</a>	<li>Brenna M. Henn, L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and Marcus W. Feldman, "The Great Human Expansion", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212380109"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>109</strong> (2012): 17758--17764</a>	<li>Lynne A. Isbell, <cite><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ISBFRU.html">TheFruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well</a></cite> [I am curiousto see how she explains the fact that <em>other</em> primates do not point tofocus shared attention, or have language.]	<li>Barbara J. King, <cite>The Information Continuum: Evolution of Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids</cite>	<li>Richard G. Klein and Blake Edgar, <cite>The Dawn of Human Culture</cite>	<li>Kevin Laland and Amanda Seed, "Understanding Human Cognitive Uniqueness", <a href="https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-062220-051256"><cite>Annual Review of Psychology</cite> <strong>72</strong> (2021): 689--716</a>	<li>Stephen C Levinson and Pierre Jaisson (eds.), <cite><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262621977">Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium</a></cite>	<li>Elisabeth A. Lloyd, <cite><a href="https://doi-org.cmu.idm.oclc.org/10.4159/9780674040304">The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution</a></cite>	<li>Haim Ofek, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521625343">Second Nature: Economic Origins of HumanEvolution</a></cite>	<li>Michael C. Oldham, Steve Horvath and Daniel H. Geschwind,"Conservation and evolution of gene coexpression networks in human andchimpanzee brains", <ahref="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605938103"><cite>Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>103</strong> (2006):17973--17978</a>	<li>Sue Taylor Parker and Michael L. McKinney, <cite><a href="http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu:80/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801866715&qty=1&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y">Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans</a></cite>  [<ahref="http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/old-developments">reviewby Clive D. L. Wynne in <cite>American Scientist</cite></a>.  Whatever its other merits, the cover is inspired.]	<li>Duane Quiatt and Vernon Reynolds, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521498325">Primate Behaviour:Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture</a></cite>	<li>Gerhard Roth and Ursula Dicke, "Evolution of the brain andintelligence", <ahref="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.03.005"><cite>Trends in CognitiveSciences</cite> <strong>9</strong> (2005): 250--257</a>	<li>Sigrid Schmaler, <cite><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=269174">The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China</cite></a>	<li>Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, and Benjamin B. Beck, <cite><a href="http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu:80/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801898532&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y">blurb</a>Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals</a></cite>[Contrast cases, as it were.]	<li>Georg F. Striedter, "Precis of <cite>Principles of BrainEvolution</cite>",<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X06009010"><cite>Behavioral andBrain Sciences</cite> <strong>29</strong> (2006): 1--12</a> [With extensivepeer commentary following]	<li>Karen B. Strier, <cite>Primate Behavioral Ecology</cite>	<li>Pierre-Jean Texier, Guillaume Porraz, John Parkington, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Cedric Poggenpoel, Christopher Miller, Chantal Tribolo, Caroline Cartwright, Aude Coudenneau, Richard Klein, Teresa Steele, and Christine Verna, "A  Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0913047107"><citE>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>107</strong> (2010): 6180--6185</a>	<li>Gary Tomlinson, <cite><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28082555">Culture and the Course of Human Evolution</a></cite>	<li>Kristian Tyl&eacute;n,  Riccardo Fusaroli,  Sergio Rojo, Katrin Heimann,  Nicolas Fay,  Niels N. Johannsen,  Felix Riede, and  Marlize Lombard, "The evolution of early symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens", <a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910880117"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>117</strong> (2020): 4578--4584</a>	<li>Peter S. Ungar, <cite><a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77gbp">Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins</a></cite>	<li>Adam P. Van Arsdale, "Population Demography, Ancestry, and the Biological Concept of Race", <a href="https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011154"><cite>Annual Review of Anthropology</cite> <strong>48</strong> (2019): 227--241</a>	<li>S. G. Webb, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521856566">TheFirst Boat People</a></cite> [Somewhat eccentric-sounding theory about thepeopling of Australia]	<li>Ken Wessen, <cite><a href="http://cambridge.org/0521843995">Simulating Human Origins and Evolution</a></cite>	<li>Jo&atilde;o Zilh&atilde;o, Diego E. Angelucci, ErnestinaBadal-Garc&iacute;a, Francesco d'Errico, Flor&eacute;al Daniel, Laure Dayet,Katerina Douka, Thomas F. G. Higham, Mar&iacute;a Jos&eacute;Mart&iacute;nez-S&aacute;nchez, Ricardo Montes-Bern&aacute;rdez, SoniaMurcia-Mascar&oacute;s, Carmen P&eacute;rez-Sirvent, ClodoaldoRold&aacute;n-Garc&iacute;a, Marian Vanhaeren, Valent&iacute;n Villaverde,Rachel Woodg, and Josefina Zapata, "Symbolic use of marine shells and mineralpigments by IberianNeandertals", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0914088107"><cite>Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>107</strong> (2010):1023--1028</a>	</ul>  </p> </div></div> <hr> <div class="footer"><P><a href="http://bactra.org/notebooks/human-evolution.html">permanent link for thisnote</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bactra.org/notebooks/human-evolution.rss">RSS feed for thisnote</a></P></div><div class="foot"> <center> <cite><a href="http://bactra.org/notebooks">Notebooks</a></cite>: &nbsp; <a href="http://www.blosxom.com/">Powered by Blosxom</a> </center> </div> </body></html>