Posted on 01/09/2006 9:20:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The Neandertals from Krapina, Croatia represent some of the geologically oldest Neandertals known, and they comprise the largest Neandertal collection from a single site in the world. However, comparisons of the Krapina material with other, later Neandertals have been limited both because of their fragmentary condition and because the sample has a disproportionate number of females and/or young individuals. This paper presents a preliminary description of our new reconstruction of Krapina 5, an adult male, and provides comparisons with females from Krapina and with later Neandertal males from Western Europe. Like other hominid sites with large samples, there is considerable cranial variation at Krapina; we believe that some, but clearly not all of it is due to sexual dimorphism. Although Krapina 5 differs from the later males in a number of features, such as cranial thickness, cranial height, and sagittal curvature, it fits well within the male Neandertal range for most other metric variables, including cranial capacity.
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Stone Age Cutups (Deathly Rituals Emerge at Neandertal Site)
RedNova News | Friday, 22 April 2005
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Late Neanderthals 'more like us'
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The most likely answer is that this male was a castrated just prior to puberty, which explains both size and location differential.
Regardless, one thing I found interesting in the book is their study of the Neanderthals which they claim is in the line of Modern Human evolution and that I agree with. The Neanderthal heavy brow ridge is one of their defining skull features and it is pointed out that present day (Modern) Australian Aboriginies have brow ridges that are as great or greater that the Neanderthals.
Rachel is one of the authors of this article.
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Can you post the entire article?
I get the same error.
One must apparently be a paid subscriber to access the full article (in .pdf format).
The link to the abstract didn't work? That's kinda weird. I don't have the full article, that's a 600+ K PDF file that is available to subscribers only. I'll send what I have.
What you posted above was the abstract; that's all that is publicly available.
By the way, there is a "special introductory rate" of $500 for a subscription to the AAPA journal.
The link posted for AAPA on the journal's web site takes you to the web site for the American Association of Physician's Assistants, not the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. The folks at Wiley & Sons are really on the ball......
Human Nature ReviewBarash (2002), even while disagreeing deeply and fundamentally with Gould, and questioning the validity of many of his achievements, inadvertently reflects Gould’s power and persuasiveness. His book review essay, quite appropriately named, ends with the exaltation to "consider, as a final extended quotation, this marvelous rhetorical flourish against the polyphyletic theory of human origins." This is followed by a citation of Gould’s terminal mischaracterization of multiregional evolution as a polygenic theory based on parallel evolution. Since its inception in the 1980s, multiregional evolution has never been polyphyletic. It has always been a theory about intraspecific evolutionary processes with an emphasis on gene flow, and therefore provided a model for hominid evolution that was antithetical to punctuated equilibrium theory (Wolpoff and Caspari, 1997). Gould consistently misportrayed it and widely publicized multiregional evolution as a polyphyletic model of parallel racial evolution similar to that of Carlton Coon’s in the 1960s. This can never be corrected now, and when Gould was alive, repeated attempts to do so in Natural History, where for the most part his incorrect and misleading depictions regularly appeared, were rejected by an editor. Why Gould needed to be protected on this issue, and for that matter why he continued to describe a hypothesis based on gene flow (Wolpoff et al 2000) as polygenic and polyphyletic will now always remain unknown, but it is embarrassing. In any other discipline it would be laughable to have to deal with a theory dead for more than a half century, as if current physics papers needed to repeatedly prove that distant galaxies were red shifted, or continued to debate whether light was a particle or a wave.
2002 Volume 2: 297
(10 July)
Professor Milford H. Wolpoff
and Dr. Rachel Caspari
Milford H. Wolpoff was born in Chicago in 1942. A graduate of the University of Illinois (Ph.D. 1969), he has worked at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Michigan, where he has been a Professor of Anthropology since 1977. He is a paleoanthropologist, with primary interests in evolutionary process and theory, and in functional morphology. Wolpoff has first hand experience with virtually the entire human and prehuman fossil record, from evidence of hominid origins to the appearance of modern humans, and their evolution. His research overseas has been supported by grants from many sources, including the National Science Foundation, the Committee for Scholarly Exchange with the People's Republic of China, the National Academy of Sciences, and various funding within the University of Michigan. Based on this substantial body of research, and a theoretical perspective emphasizing populational evolution, Wolpoff developed the Single Species Hypotheses early in his career, established the pattern of marked australopithecine megadontia and sexual dimorphism and documented the adaptive pattern of changes in sexual dimorphism during human evolution, argued against the contention that the 15 million year old Ramapithecus was a hominid ancestor, and determined the pattern of dental allometry in human populations. He is deeply involved in the ongoing debate over the place of Neandertals in human evolution, and provided primary descriptions of fossil human remains from Krapina (Croatia), Vindija (Croatia), Mladec (Moravia), and Loboi (Kenya). He is an originator of the Multiregional Evolution model of Pleistocene human evolution (which he named), and has published on it extensively from both the paleontological and genetic perspectives. Related to Multiregional evolution, and in the face of increasingly popular taxonomizing of recent human variation, he has argued that there is but a single species of Homo in the Pleistocene. Recent books include the definitive textbook Paleoanthropology (2nd edition, McGraw- Hill, 1999) and the award winning Race and Human Evolution (co-authored with Rachel Caspari, Simon and Schuster, 1997). Wolpoff has chaired 14 Ph.D. committees, and recently received the Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger Award at the Krapina 1899-1999 Conference, from the Croatian Natural History Museum, and (with Rachel Caspari) the W.W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association. Besides his substantial publication record (in scientific journals he is the most widely cited member of the department), Wolpoff is often heard on PBS, quoted in articles on recent fossil and genetic discoveries in The New York Times and other papers, and widely cited in editorials and summaries in journals and magazines such as Science, Scientific American, Science News, Discovery, and New Scientist. His reputation is reflected in his many radio appearances and his continued presence in science documentaries on the Discovery Channel and other similar shows. His work is discussed in all textbooks dealing with the pattern of human evolution and the origin of modern humans, whether specifically anthropological or more broadly biological.
Selected Papers:
Multiregional Evolution: the Fossil Alternative to Eden. In: The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans, edited by P. Mellars and C.B. Stringer. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. pp. 62-108.Wolpoff, M.H., A.G. Thorne, J. Jelínek, and Zhang Yinyun 1994 The Case for Sinking Homo Erectus. 100 Years of Pithecanthropus is Enough! Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 171:341-361.
Hawks, J., S-H. Lee, K. Hunley, and M.H. Wolpoff 2000 Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17(1):2-22.
Wolpoff, M.H., J.D. Hawks, D.W. Frayer, and K. Hunley 2001 Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory. Science 291:293-297.
I never liked Stephen Jay Gould. He was a ponderous windbag who loved to read his own writing.
Punctuated Equilibria is his, and was conceived as the last bastion of defense against catastrophism. Instead of "catastrophe", he conceived of "diastrophe", which is the punctuation mark in his system. :')
Thanks SunkenCiv, love this stuff.
"Krapina".
What an "unfortunate" name.
Dustbunny: "Thanks SunkenCiv, love this stuff."
My pleasure.
albee: "How would you like to be from or live in a town called 'KRAPINA'?"
It's safe to say one has to be careful where one steps there. Great tagline quote BTW.
porkchops 4 mahound: "'Krapina'. What an 'unfortunate' name."
It was founded during the Aroman Empire.
Whoops.
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