1 Neanderthals and Emergent Paleoanthropology 50 Years Ago ..... 1
F. Clark Howell
2 One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Discoveries:
Continuity and Discontinuity ................................ 11
Silvana Condemi
3 The Genus Homo: Origin, Speciation and Dispersal ............ 17
Winfried Henke and Thorolf Hardt
4 Before the Neanderthals: Hominid Evolution in Middle
Pleistocene Europe .......................................... 47
Ian Tattersall
5 The Earliest European Human Peopling After the Recent
Discoveries: Early Neanderthals or Different Lineages? ...... 55
Francesco Mallegni
6 The Gran Dolina-TD6 Human Fossil Remains and the Origin
of Neanderthals ............................................. 67
José María Bermúdez de Castro, María Martinón-Torres,
Aida Gómez-Robles, Ann Margvelashvili, Juan Luis Arsuaga,
José Miguel Carretero, Ignacio Martinez, and Susana
Sarmiento
7 The Hominid Fossils from China Contemporaneous with the
Neanderthals and Some Related Studies ....................... 77
Wu Liu and Xiujie Wu
8 Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals:
A Levantine Perspective ..................................... 89
Naama Goren-Inbar
9 Discontinuities in the Faunal Assemblages and Early Human
Populations of Central and Western Europe During the
Middle and Late Pleistocene ................................ 101
Wighart von Koenigswald
10 Neanderthal Geographical and Chronological Variation ....... 113
Bernard Vandermeersch and Maria Dolores Garralda
11 A Preliminary Approach to the Neanderthal Speciation by
Distance Hypothesis: A View from the Shoulder Complex ...... 127
Jean-Luc Voisin
12 Facts and Ideas in Paleolithic Growth Studies
(Paleoauxology) ............................................ 139
Anne-Marie Tillier
13 Dental Development and Age at Death of a Middle
Paleolithic Juvenile Hominin from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto,
Uzbekistan ................................................. 155
Tanya M. Smith, Donald J. Reid, Anthony J. Olejniczak,
Shara Bailey, Mica Glantz, Bence Viola, and Jean-Jacques
Hublin
14 Computerized Reconstruction of Prenatal Growth
Trajectories in the Dentition: Implications for the
Taxonomic Status of Neandertals ............................ 165
Patricia Smith, Gal Avishai, Ralph Müller, and Yankel Gabet
15 Endostructural Characterisation of the Regourdou
1 Neanderthal Proximal Arm: Bilateral Asymmetry and
Handedness ................................................. 175
Virginie Volpato, Christine Couture, Roberto
Macchiarelli, and Bernard Vandermeersch
16 A Three-Dimensional Look at the Neanderthal Mandible ....... 179
Katerina Harvati, Nandini Singh, and Elisabeth
Nicholson López
17 Integration and Homology of "Chignon" and "Hemibun"
Morphology ................................................. 193
Philipp Gunz and Katerina Harvati
18 Virtual Synthesis of the Skull in Neanderthals by FESS ..... 203
Ulrich Witzel
19 Neandertal mtDNA from a Late Pleistocene Human Mandible
from the Covadel Gegant (Spain) ............................ 213
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Rolf Quam, Joan Daura, Montserrat
Sanz, Maria Eulàlia Subira, Love Dalén, and Anders
Gotherstrom
20 Towards Neanderthal Paleogenomics .......................... 219
David Caramelli, Lucio Milani, Roscoe Stanyon, and
Carles Lalueza Fox
21 Twelve Years of Neandertal Genetic Discoveries:
State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges ..................... 223
Ludovic Orlando and Catherine Hänni
22 Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic
Transition: The Demise of the Last Neanderthals and
the First Appearance of Anatomically Modern Humans in
Europe ..................................................... 239
Olaf Jöris, Martin Street, Thomas Terberger, and
Bernhard Weninger
23 Archaeological, Paleontological and Genomic
Perspectives on Late European Neandertals at Vindija
Cave, Croatia .............................................. 299
Ivor Janković, Ivor Karavanić, James C.M. Ahern, Dejana
Brajković, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, and Fred H. Smith
24 Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Europe,
Population Dynamics and Paleobiology ....................... 315
Erik Trinkaus
25 Aliens from Outer Time? Why the "Human Revolution" Is
Wrong, and Where Do We Go from Here? ....................... 331
João Zilhão
26 Neandertals and the Roots of Human Recency ................. 367
Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
27 Epilogue: 150 Years of Neanderthal Research - A
Hopeless Situation but Not Serious ......................... 379
Gerd-Christian Weniger
Index ......................................................... 383
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