International Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Key Evolutionary Transformations in Homo sapiens


Publishing date
15 Mar 2011
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Sep 2010

Lead Editor

1School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

2Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100864 Kunming, China

3Stone Age Institute, P.O. Box 5097, Bloomington, IN 47407-509, USA

4School of Archaeology, Classic and Egyptology, 2-14 Abercromby Square, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK


Key Evolutionary Transformations in Homo sapiens

Description

The origins of anatomically and behaviourally modern humans remain key evolutionary questions. The geographic source and timing of this event are broadly understood: sub-Saharan Africa around 200,000 years ago. Yet, there is still much to be learned about the divergence of Homo sapiens and H. neanderthalensis from a common ancestor some 400,000 years ago, the deep-time transformations of archaic to modern H. sapiens, and the colonisation of Eurasia by a small subset of sub-Saharan Africans after 100,000 years ago. Finally, defining modern humans has become increasingly challenging with new research in genetics suggesting the possibility of interbreeding with archaic hominins and discoveries from archaeology blurring the behavioural distinctions between Neanderthals and early modern humans.

This special volume seeks contributions which address issues surrounding the broad questions of: 1) the speciation of H. sapiens, 2) transformation from archaic to modern H. sapiens, 3) migration(s) out of Africa and the colonisation of Eurasia, and 4) possible interactions including interbreeding with Neanderthals and other archaic hominins.

Coverage includes, but is not limited to:

  • Studies of the human fossil record
  • Cultural materials and the archaeological record
  • Genetic data and modelling, particularly genomics and ancient DNA
  • Palaeoecological data and environmental forcing
  • Theoretical perspectives including evolutionary psychology

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijeb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 478690
  • - Editorial

Key Evolutionary Transformations in Homo sapiens

Darren Curnoe | Bing Su | ... | John Gowlett
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 689315
  • - Research Article

Neanderthals versus Modern Humans: Evidence for Resource Competition from Isotopic Modelling

Virginie Fabre | Silvana Condemi | ... | Estelle Herrscher
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 961401
  • - Review Article

A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith

Andy I. R. Herries
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 615094
  • - Review Article

Upper Pleistocene Human Dispersals out of Africa: A Review of the Current State of the Debate

Amanuel Beyin
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 582678
  • - Review Article

Before the Emergence of Homo sapiens: Overview on the Early-to-Middle Pleistocene Fossil Record (with a Proposal about Homo heidelbergensis at the subspecific level)

Giorgio Manzi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 545879
  • - Research Article

Morphological Integration of the Modern Human Mandible during Ontogeny

Joshua M. Polanski
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 382679
  • - Research Article

The Archaeological Record Speaks: Bridging Anthropology and Linguistics

Sergio Balari | Antonio Benítez-Burraco | ... | Juan Uriagereka
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 968012
  • - Research Article

The African Origin of Complex Projectile Technology: An Analysis Using Tip Cross-Sectional Area and Perimeter

Matthew L. Sisk | John J. Shea
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 741357
  • - Research Article

The Implications of the Working Memory Model for the Evolution of Modern Cognition

Thomas Wynn | Frederick L. Coolidge
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 145262
  • - Research Article

The Role of Genetic Drift in Shaping Modern Human Cranial Evolution: A Test Using Microevolutionary Modeling

Heather F. Smith

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