Greatest Mysteries in Human Evolution
Solutions to Ancient Archaeological and Anthropological Anomalies
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2024
- Author: Frederick L. Coolidge
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 2 9 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 4 3 0 - 0
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Request a sales quoteGreatest Mysteries in Human Evolution: Solutions to Ancient Archaeological and Anthropological Anomalies uses the most updated research and data to examine human evolution and the unsolved answers of our evolutionary history. Written by an acclaimed pioneer in cognitive archaeology, this book begins with an assessment of Neanderthals, using historical and archaeological evidence to explore how and why they became extinct. It then moves to the scientific discovery of the Peking Man fossils and why the proof of a 700,000-year-old skull would try to be erased from evolutionary history.
The book also explores the first traces of the creation and evolution of language, communication, human abstract thinking, and tool creation, presenting an approachable and important resource for researchers and students in evolutionary biology, cognitive archaeology, and similar studies of human evolution.
- Assesses human evolution through cognitive archaeology and linguistics
- Examines brain evolution from Neanderthal to modern humans and its cortical developments for language, motor, and thinking skills
- Discusses the DNA analyses and extinctions of human cousins, including Homo floresiensis, Homo naledi, and the Denisovans
Researchers in evolutionary biology, human evolution studies, cognitive archaeology, cognitive neuroscientists, Students in evolutionary biology, human evolution, cognitive archaeology
1. Neanderthals - Europe and Africa
2. Peking Man - Asia
3. Mimbres - North America
4. Ancient Egypt
5. The Evolution of Language
6. Cultural Explosion of 50,000 Years Ago
7. Abstract Thinking and Counting
8. Extinct Human Cousins
9. Brain Evolution from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens
10. Spheroids and Tool Creation
2. Peking Man - Asia
3. Mimbres - North America
4. Ancient Egypt
5. The Evolution of Language
6. Cultural Explosion of 50,000 Years Ago
7. Abstract Thinking and Counting
8. Extinct Human Cousins
9. Brain Evolution from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens
10. Spheroids and Tool Creation
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443154294
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Frederick L. Coolidge
Dr. Frederick L. Coolidge is a Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of Undergraduate Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Florida. Dr. Coolidge specializes in cognitive archaeology, behavior genetics, cognitive evolution, paleopyschology, and evolutionary neuropsychology. He is the author of 12 published books on cognitive archaeology and evolutionary topics.
Affiliations and expertise
CU Presidential Teaching Scholar and Co-Direct of Psychology Undergraduate Education, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA