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americanus
subspecies

Amud fossils

amygdala

Andel, Tjeerd van

Andrews, Peter

apes, great.
See also specific species

brains

childhood and

DNA

Hobbit and

human abilities vs.

human split from

apolipoprotein E gene

archaic genes.
See also
interbreeding

African populations and

dispersals from Africa and

Ardrey, Robert

argon dating

Armitage, Simon

art.
See also specific sites and works

artisan specialists

Asia

Asian origins models

asiaticus
subspecies

ASPM gene

Assimilation model

Atapuerca Neanderthals

Aterian industry

Atkinson, Quentin

Aurignacians

Australia

Australian aborigines

australopithecines

Australopithecus afarensis

Australopithecus africanus

Australopithecus sediba

autosomal DNA

dispersal from Africa and

Avery, Margaret

Bailey, Shara

Banks, William

Barker, Graeme

Barton, Nick

Bar-Yosef, Ofer

beads

ostrich eggshell

shell

Beaumont, Peter

Beeches Pit

behavior.
See also specific behaviors

Africa as source of complex

brain and

complex in early modern sites

coordination of activities

cultural buffering and

Dmanisi and

environment and genes and

group size and

Human Revolution and

human vs. ape

hunting and

learning from fossils about

mating and

mind reading and

modern, and Africa

modern, and Australia

modern, and evolution

modern, and physical changes

modern, defined

music and

Neanderthal vs. modern

pigments and body painting

population densities and

religion and

rituals and

Social Brain Hypothesis and

social transmission and

symbolism and

Bello, Silvia

Berger, Thomas

Bergmann's rule

Bermúdez de Castro, José María

betaglobin gene

Biaka pygmies

Bigelow, Robert

Binford, Lewis

Bingham, Paul

Biological Species Concept (BSC)

Bir el-Ater

Blombos Cave

blood groups

blood proteins

boats

Bocherens, Hervé

Bodo

body shape

Bohunician industry

Boker Tachtit

bone butchery

bones, dating

Border Cave

bottlenecks, population

Boule, Marcellin

Bowles, Samuel

Boxgrove site

Boyd, Robert

Brace, C. Loring

Bradshaw paintings

brain

African origins and

behavior and

Broken Hill

childhood and

Dmanisi

energy demands and

evolution and

genes and

group size and

H. erectus

H. heidelbergensis

Hobbit

Human Revolution and

inner speech and

language and

marine resources and

memory and

microcephalin gene and

modern human

music and

Neanderthal

regional differences

religion and

rewiring and behavior

ritual and

size and

Social Brain Hypothesis and

toolmaking and

warfare and

braincase

Broken Hill

H. erectus
and

Herto skull

H. heidelbergensis
and

H. sapiens
and

modern human and

Neanderthal

brain mapping

Bramble, Dennis

Bräuer, Günter

Brennan, Mary Ursula

Brink, James

Broad Spectrum Revolution

Broken Hill skull (Rhodesian Man)

Bromage, Tim

Brooks, Alison

Brotherton, Paul

Brothwell, Don

Brown, Kyle

Brown, Peter

brow ridge

Bruner, Emiliano

burials.
See also specific sites

Amud and Kebara

Cro-Magnon

Lapedo Valley

Nazlet Khater

Neanderthals

Qafzeh

rituals and

Saint-Césaire

Skhul

symbolic

Tabun

Bushman

Busk, George

butchery marks

Byrne, Richard

Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) dating

Campbell, Bernard

Campi Flegrei volcanic eruption

Cann, Rebecca

cannibalism

“Capoid” lineage

carbon C-12/C-13, diet and

carbon C-14 dating

Carmel, Mount

Caspari, Rachel

catarrhines group

“Caucasoid” lineage proposed

cause and effect concept

Cavallo Cave

cave art

CDK5RAP2 gene

CENPJ gene

cephalic index (CI)

cerebellum

cerebellum/cerebrum ratio

cerebral cortex

cerebral hemispheres

cerebrum

Chancelade site

Chapais, Bernard

Châtelperronian industry

Chauvet Cave

cheekbones

childbirth

children

chimpanzees

behavior

blood groups

brain

culture

genome

human split from

lice and

tools and

chin

China.
See also specific sites

Chomsky, Noam

Christ Church, Spitalfields

chromosome 9

Churchill, Steve

Clacton

Clark, Desmond

classification of species

click language groups

climate

African Middle Stone Age and

Australia and

body shape and

Broad Spectrum Revolution and

culture and

dispersal from Africa and

Hobbit and

isotope signatures and

Neanderthal extinction and

Neanderthals vs. Cro-Magnons and

northern China and

population and

regional characteristics and

clothing and textiles

coalitions, aggressive

coasts, dispersals from Africa and

Cochran, Gregory

collagen, diet and

Collins, Matthew

communication.
See also
language

competition

Compton, Tim

computerized tomography (CT scans)

microCT studies

stereolithography and

teeth and

Confucius

continental drift

cooking

ovens and

Coolidge, Frederick

Coon, Carleton

Cooper, Alan

cooperation

Cooperative Eye Hypothesis

coordination of activities

corals, dating and

Corballis, Michael

Cormack, Allan

Cornish, Lorraine

cosmetics

Coulson, Sheila

courtship

creativity

Crevecoeur, Isabelle

Cro-Magnons

Aurignacian industry

body size and shape

brain size

burials

cave art and

classification of

climate and

clothing and

culture of

data gathering on, in 1971

diet of

dogs and

European expansion by

evolution from Neanderthal theory

genetics and

Gravettian tools and

H-O foramen and

Human Revolution and

kinship and

longevity of

migrations of

Neanderthal interbreeding and

Neanderthals wounds and

Omo Kibish and

RAO model and

regional characteristics and

Cronin, Helena

Cruciani, Fulvio

cryptotephra

Cueva Antón

Cueva de los Aviones

Cueva Morin

cultural adaptation

cultural buffering

cultural diversity

cultural selection

culture

demography and

gene flow and

imitation and

Neanderthal vs. modern

SBH and

social networks and

Currat, Mathias

Cussac cave paintings

cytochrome

Danube River

Dart, Raymond

Darwin, Charles

dating methods

Dawkins, Richard

Dawn Warriors, The
(Bigelow)

Dawson, Charles

Day, Michael

Deacon, Hilary

Dean, Christopher

demography.
See also
population density; population size

dendrochronology dating

Denisovans

genetics

Dennell, Robin

Denys, Christiane

d'Errico, Francesco

Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The
(Darwin)

Devil's Tower skull

Diepkloof rock shelter

diet.
See also
marine resources; plant resources

Cro-Magnon vs. Neanderthal

Di Reinzo, Anna

diseases

distance statistic

Divje Babe Cave

Dmanisi

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
See also
genetics;
and specific types

dogs

domestication

dopamine

Drake, Nick

DRD4 gene

Dreamtime

Dubois, Eugène

Dunbar, Robin

Dunbar's number

dwellings

dyes.
See also
pigments

Dzudzuana Cave

Early Neanderthal model

East Africa

EDAR gene

“Egbert” skeleton

Elandsfontein

electron spin resonance (ESR), dating

Eliye Springs

Ellison, Peter

El Sidrón caves

Emiran industry

empathy

encephalization quotient (EQ)

Endicott, Phillip

endorphins

Engis site

Enkapune ya Muto (Twilight Cave)

environment

adaptation to

cultural buffering and

learning and


Eoanthropus dawsoni

epigenetics

Eswaran, Vinayak

Eurocentrism

europaeus
subspecies

Europe.
See also
Cro-Magnons; Neanderthals;
and specific sites and tool industries and periods

climate in

dating of oldest modern humans in

dispersal to

early human sites in

early symbolism

language humans in

later human sites

European origins models

Ewing, J. Franklin

Excoffier, Laurent

extinctions, and knowledge

Eyasi skull

eyes

color

sclera

sockets

face

expressions

shape

Falconer, Hugh

families, extended.
See also
kinship systems

fashion

fatherhood, recognition of

feet

females.
See also
Mitochondrial Eve

childbirth and

dispersals from Africa and

figurine

hunting and

kinship and

Neanderthal genes and

plant collection and fire

postmenopause

red ocher and

social complexity and

violence and

X-chromosomes and

femora (thighbones)

figurines

Finlayson, Clive

fire

Fishbourne Roman Palace

Fisher, Claire

fish oils

Flannery, Kent

flax fibers

Fleagle, John

Flores Island.
See also
Hobbit

Florisbad skull

flour production

flutes

Fodor, Jerry

Foley, Robert

food.
See also specific types

gathering and processing

refuse

resources

Forbes' Quarry

forehead

founder effect

454 Life Sciences

Fox, Robin

FOXP2 gene

French, Jennifer

Froehle, Andrew

frontal lobe

G6PD enzyme

Galería del Osario

Galley Hill skeleton

Gamble, Clive

Garden of Eden model

Gargett, Robert

Geist, Valerius

gemmules

gene flow

“Genetic and Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans” (Stinger)

genetic distance technique

genetic drift

genetic engineering

genetics.
See also
DNA; interbreeding; RNA

African internal variation and

altruism and

Australia and

cultural diversity and

Denisovans and

development of

dispersal of modern humans and

distance from Africa and

founder effect

future evolution and

geographic distribution and

human evolution calibrated through

hybridization and archaic genes

language and

lice and

longevity and

modern human evolution and

mtDNA and

Multiregional view and

Neanderthals and

population size and

RAO model and

regional characteristics and

selfish gene and

genetic switches

Genghis Khan

genus, defined

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov

Gibraltar

glottogonists

Goodall, Jane

gorillas

gossip

Gough's Cave

Gould, Stephen Jay

Goyet Cave

Grandmother Hypothesis

Gravettians

Greenland Eskimo

Grimaldi site

grooming

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