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PrefaceList of FiguresList of Tables1. FossilisationPatterns of Social Organisation; Taphonomy; DatingFossils; Methods; Direct Methods; Indirect Methods;Chronometric dating; Half-life; Relative DatingProcedures; Stratigraphy; Fluorine dating; Nitrogendating; Uranium dating; Absolute Dating Techniques;Radiocarbon dating; Obsidian dating; Fission-tracktechnique; Potassium-Argon dating: Material Used;Period; Thermoluminescence (TI); PalaeomagnetismTechnique; Electron Spin Resonance Technique;Faunal Correlation Technique (Biostratigraphy);Dendrochronology; Amino Acid RacemizationTechnique.2. Primate RadiationPrimate Development; Early Tertiary Period;Miocene Epoch; Parapithecus; Propliopithecus;Limnopithecus; Pliopithecus; Prohylobates; Dryopithecinae;Dryopithecus; Ramapithecus; Rudapithecushungaricus; Sugrivapithecus; Sivapithecus -- Sivapithecussivalensis; Sivapithecus himalayensis; Gigantopithecus.3. AustralopithecinesAustralopithecus - East Africa; Early species; TheRobust Australopithecines - The Gracile Australopithecines;Paranthropus.4. Homo habilis Sites; Tool making capabilities; Social organisation.5. Homo erectus Bodily Structure of Homo erectus; Origin of Homoerectus; Variations in Homo erectus; Transition fromHomo erectus to Homo sapiens; Other Homo erectusFinds; Narmada Man Heidelberg Man (HomoHeidelbergensis); Asian Fossils; African Fossils;European Fossils; Behavioural Inferences;Evolutionary Implications; Gradualistic Views of theTransition to Homo sapiens; Alternative Modes ofSpecies Change.6. Neanderthal Man The Extinction of Neanderthal Man; Burials; Archaicand Modern Peoples; Physical Characteristics; PreNeanderthalMan (Early Homo sapiens) - Relationshipbetween Neanderthal man and modern man.7. Modern MenCro-Magnon; Hunting Techniques; Place in HumanEvolution; Culture; Eyziea-de-Tayac Caves; TheTautavel Man; Swanscombe Man; Steinheim Man.8. Human EvolutionThe Antiquity of Homo sapiens; Structure of Homosapiens; Evolution of the Human Skull.9. Human OriginsDating; African Eve Hypothesis; Ancient Africans,Whose Ancestors?; Early Dispersal and Homosapiens; Genetic Evidence for Modern HumanOrigins; The Story of how we became man; Split fromthe Apes; The Earliest Humans; Modern Humans;The End of Evolution?; Man; But were the CroMagnonAfricans?; Cultural Evidence for ModernHuman Origins; Rethinking?10. Molecular ClockChromosomal Evolution; Chromosomal Homology;DNA; Gene Mapping.11. PalaeodemographyMethodology; Sexing; Ageing; Parity and WeaningAge; Population Size Estimates; Mortality Patterns;Growth; Disease, Diet and Demography;Australopithecus; Homo Habilis; Neanderthals.12. PalaeopathologyNeanderthal Man; Bone Tumour; General.Literature CitedIndex

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