Origin of Humankind: Conference Proceedings

This volume deals with one of the most fascinating topics in world science today. Some of its important areas - from paleontology to genetics have yielded the most striking contributions. However, it also has aspects that transcend science, and probe deeply into domains that do not pertain to scientific culture proper, e.g. religion and philosophy. The volume will bring together contributions from a very distinguished group of palaeontologists and geneticists: they present an update of knowledge on the topic, the "Out-of-Africa" theory; the demise of the Neanderthal, perhaps the most fascinating anthropological enigma; the Italian scene.

Preface
New Data on Modern Human Origins	p. 1
Before Modern Humans: The European Perspective	p. 3
DNA and Recent Human Evolution	p. 7
Global Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origin of Native Americans	p. 9
Mitochondrial DNA Sequences from Extinct Humans - Problems and Prospects	p. 13
A Nuclear DNA Perspective on Human Evolution	p. 15
The Human Language Faculty	p. 17
Some Conclusions about Human Evolution	p. 19
Does Culture Evolve?	p. 21
The Fossil Calvaria of Homo Erectus from Ceprano (Central Italy): A New Reconstruction	p. 25
Fossil Children: What Can They Tell Us about the Origin of the Genus Homo?	p. 35
Fossil Italians. What We Know and What We Could Learn about Human Evolution from the Italian Fossil Record	p. 51
Mitochondrial DNA and Human Diversity: A Detailed Analysis of the D-Loop Region	p. 69
Neolithic and Palaeolithic Components in the European Gene Pool	p. 79
Possible Approaches to the Search for Man's Genetic Adaptations to Adverse Biological Factors: The Case of Malaria	p. 81
Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Europe: Behavioural Aspects	p. 85
Indo-European Languages and Genetics	p. 95
Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Europe: Implications for the Origin of Europeans and Disease Studies	p. 99
Author Index	p. 103
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Origin of Humankind: Conference Proceedings of the International Symposium, Venice, 14-15 May 1998

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