Africa from MIS 6-2

Population Dynamics and Paleoenvironments

424 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2 (~190-12,000 years ago) witnessed the biological development and behavioral florescence of our species. Modern human population dynamics, which involved multiple population expansions, dispersals, contractions and extinctions, played a central role in our species’ evolutionary trajectory. So far, the demographic processes – modern human population sizes, distributions and movements – that occurred within Africa during this critical period have been consistently under-addressed.  The authors of this volume aim at (1) examining the impact of this glacial-interglacial- glacial cycle on human group sizes, movements and distributions throughout Africa; (2) investigating the macro- and micro-evolutionary processes underpinning our species’ anatomical and behavioral evolution; and (3) setting an agenda whereby Africa can benefit from, and eventually contribute to, the increasingly sophisticated theoretical and methodological palaeodemographic frameworks developed on other continents.

• Reihe: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geowissenschaften Paläontologie
• ISBN: 9789401775199
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2016
• Größe: 27.9 x 21 cm
• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Herausgegeben von: Sacha C. Jones, Brian A. Stewart