Volume 94 (2016)
What made us human?
The first part of the volume 94 will include a number of papers concerned with one of the fundamental question of evolutionary Anthropology, what made us human?. These contributions have been developed with updates from the lectures presented at the international workshop “What made us human? Biological and cultural Evolution of Homo sapiens” (Erice, Italy, October 14-19, 2014) by leading scholars in paleontology, genetics, archaeology and linguistics. Stefano Parmigiani, Telmo Pievani and Ian Tattersall will serve as guest Editors, with the assistance of Francesco Suman.
Cover Story
What made us human? Biological and cultural evolution of Homo sapiens.
Stefano Parmigiani, Telmo Pievani & Ian Tattersall
1-3 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94036
Paleoanthropology and Morphology
The place of Homo floresiensis in human evolution.
Karen Baab
5-18 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94024
Early hominin diversity and the emergence of genus Homo.
William Harcourt Smith
19-27 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94035
Oldowan hominin behavior and ecology at Kanjera South, Kenya.
Thomas Plummer & Laura C. Bishop
29-40 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94033
Filling the gap. Human cranial remains from Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia; ca. 850 ka) and the origin of Homo heidelbergensis.
Antonio Profico, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Lorenza Gagliardi, Marcello Piperno & Giorgio Manzi
41-63 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94019
What constitutes Homo sapiens? Morphology versus received wisdom.
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
65-80 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94028
Brain and Cognition
Visuospatial integration and human evolution: the fossil evidence.
Emiliano Bruner, Marina Lozano & Carlos Lorenzo
81-97 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94025
Evolution of brain and culture: the neurological and cognitive journey from Australopithecus to Albert Einstein.
Dean Falk
99-111 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94027
Faces in the mirror: from the neuroscience of mimicry to the emergence of mentalizing.
Antonella Tramacere & Pier Francesco Ferrari
113-126 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94037
Language
The evolution of language and thought.
Philip Lieberman
127-146 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94029
Formal Linguistics as a cue to demographic history.
Giuseppe Longobardi, A. Ceolin, A. Ecay, S. Ghirotto, C. Guardiano, M. Irimia, D. Michelioudakis, N. Radkevich, D. Pettener, D. Luiselli & Guido Barbujani
147-155 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94031
A tentative framework for the acquisition of language and modern human cognition.
Ian Tattersall
157-166 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94030
Ecology
Multilevel human evolution: ecological patterns in hominin phylogeny.
Andrea Parravicini & Telmo Pievani
167-182 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94026
Evolutionary medicine
Why human evolution should be a basic science for medicine and psychology students.
Paola Palanza & Stefano Parmigiani
183-192 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94034
Genetics
Invited reviews
The false dichotomy: a refutation of the Neandertal indistinguishability claim.
Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh A. Overmann & Frederick L. Coolidge
201-221 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94022
Do it yourself
Make it clear: Molds, transparent casts, and lightning techniques for stereomicroscopic analysis of taphonomic modifications on bone surfaces.
Edgard Camarós, Carlos Sánchez Hernández & Florent Rivals
223-230 [full text]
doi 10.4436/JASS.94023