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Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 38
Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close
relationship between climate change, ecological change and biogeo-
graphical patterns in humans during the Pleistocene. In particular, it
challenges the view that Modern Human ‘superiority’ caused the ex-
tinction of the Neanderthals between 40 000 and 30 000 years ago.
Clive Finlayson shows that to understand human evolution, the spread
of humankind across the world and the extinction of archaic popula-
tions we must start off from a theoretical evolutionary ecology base
and incorporate the important wider biogeographic patterns, including
the role of tropical and temperate refugia. His proposal is that Nean-
derthals became extinct because their world changed faster than they
could cope with, and that their relationship with the arriving Modern
Humans, where they met, was subtle.
Clive Finlayson is Director, Museums and Heritage in the Govern-
ment of Gibraltar, based at the Gibraltar Museum. He is also Professor
in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His
research interests include Quaternary human–environmental patterns,
the biogeography of hominids, and changing environments and faunal
patterns in the Quaternary of southern Europe.
Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Series Editors
human ecology
C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, University of Cambridge
Michael A. Little, State University of New York, Binghamton
ics
h M. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University
human evolution
Robert A. Foley, University of Cambridge
Nina G. Jablonski, California Academy of Science
primatology
Karen B. Strier, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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