Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- 1 • The Problem of Modern Human Origins.- II. What are Modern Humans?.- 2 • The Contributions of Southwest Asia to the Study of the Origin of Modern Humans.- 3 • Hominids, Energy, Environment, and Behavior in the Late Pleistocene.- 4 • Behavioral and Cultural Changes at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Western Europe.- 5 • Ancestral Lifeways in Eurasia — The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Records.- 6 • New Advances in the Field of Ice Age Art.- III. African Center of Origin.- 7 • Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution: Our One Lucky Mother.- 8 • Out of Africa — A Personal History.- IV. Multiregional Hypothesis.- 9 • Multiregional Evolution: A World-Wide Source for Modern Human Populations.- 10 • Archaic and Modern Homo sapiens in the Contact Zones: Evolutionary Schematics and Model Predictions.- 11 • Samples, Species, and Speculations in the Study of Modern Human Origins.- V. Synopsis and Prospectus.- 12 • A Chronostratigraphic and Taxonomic Framework of the Origins of Modern Humans.