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language abilities of
27–8

problem-solving skills of
27

tool use by
8
,
20–1
,
26–7

China

genetic origins in
227

Mongoloid replacement in
268–70

technical influences at LGM
272
,
274

Chinese Palaeolithic cultures
272–3

Chomsky, Noam
29
,
31

chopper-chopping tools
272
,
274

classical population genetics
42
,
49–50

climate

dating using
354–5

influence of
3–4
,
18
,
51–4

see also
global cooling; global warming; ice age cycles; Last Glacial Maximum

Clovis-first theory
281–7

Coevolution
19–21

colour of skin
198–200

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
28
,
31

Cooper, Alan
339

cooperative hunting
12

Corballis, Michael
28
,
31

core technologies
101
,
103
,
115

cortical connections
23

Crick, Francis
35–6

Crow, Tim
30

culture

European biological revolution theory
xvi–xvii
,
107–28

Europe’s two waves of
130–1

learning of
20–1

regional differences in progression rate
110

relationship with biology
18–21
,
106–14

see also
art

 

D mtDNA group
231
,
255
,
264
,
268
,
305
,
306–7
,
308
,
310–13
,
332–3
,
337
,
341

Darwin, Charles
34
,
36

dating, precision of
354–6

Deloria, Vine
282

Diamond, Jared
93

Diet
9–12
,
76–7
,
124–7
,
203–4

Dillehay, Tom
287

Disease
358–61

Diuktai technology
276

diversity
see
genetic diversity; language

Dixon, Robert
297

Dmanisi humans
69–72

DNA

analysis of
174

ancient
317

discovery of
35–6

see also
mtDNA; Y chromosome

dolichocephaly
205

Dravidian peoples
181

dry exodus theory
78–9

Dunbar, Robin
24–5

 

E mtDNA group
231
,
263
,
264

Early Upper Palaeolithic
148
,
149

East Asia

dating colonization of
348

low level tools used in
271–2

migration to Southeast Asia
263–6

north-south division in
226–8

physical appearance in
205

Eemian interglacial
53
,
72

Egyptian child (Taramsa Hill)
56

Elton, Sarah
10
,
11

Englefield, Ronald
28
,
31

environment
see
climate Erlandson, Jon
339

Ethiopia
67

Europa (U) maternal clan
134–9
,
179
,
182

Europe

Aurignacian culture
131–3
,
138
,
144
,
148

Gravettian culture
144–9

at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
244–50
,
349–50

two waves of culture into
130–1

European biological revolution theory
xvi–xvii
,
107–28

European Middle Palaeolithic
117

European Neanderthals
16

European Upper Palaeolithic
55
,
100
,
107–28

Europeans

debate over out-of-Africa origins
89–93

northern route theory and
54–61

South Asian origins of
84–7
,
139–44
,
144
,
152–4

teeth shape
206

Eve
see
mtDNA; Mitochondrial Eve; ‘Out-of-Africa Eve’

Eve genes
see
mtDNA

evolution, continuing
362–3

 

F mtDNA group
158
,
231
,
263
,
264

face

flattening
7
,
205

shape
201
,
203
,
205

face-recognition
196

Fedje, Daryl
340

Fertile Crescent
60
,
85
,
133
,
138
,
140–1
,
143
,
144

Fiedel, Stuart
288–90
,
292

Fladmark, Knut
338
,
341

flaked stone industry
272
,
273
,
274

Foley, Robert
57–8
,
61
,
72
,
103
,
115

food
see
diet

Forster, Peter
263
,
309
,
310–13
,
337

founder effects
173
,
214

Fullager, Robert
160

 

G mtDNA group
231
,
264

Gadaba people
157

Gamble, Clive
24
,
91
,
108
,
148

Gate of Grief
67–8
,
77
,
78–9

gene-flow levelling theory
112–13

genetic assimilation
19–21

genetic diversity

effect on physical appearance
172
,
174–5

genetic drift and
172–3

genetic intervention and
361

Mongoloid populations
210

nuclear genetic markers and
173–4

present-day lack of
357–8

retained in South Asia
175–7
,
191–2

transition across Americas
307–13

genetic drift
64–6
,
172–3
,
214–18
,
330–1

genetic intervention
360–2

genetic palaeontology
347

genetics

quality of evidence
352–4

revolution in
33–5

Geographical Society Cave
273

global cooling
4

global warming
52
,
356

Goodall, Jane
27

Goodyear, Al
292–3

Gould, Stephen Jay
217

gracile features
161
,
175
,
203
,
205
,
267

Gravettian culture
144–9

Gravettian technocomplex
148

Great Lakes of North America
247

Greater Andamanese
158

green North African refuges
55–6

Greenberg hypothesis
300–1
,
305
,
306–7

Greenberg, Joseph
297
,
300–1

Grindstones
120

Guanjun, Shen
170

Gulf of Aden
80

Gunung Runtuh cave
167

Guthrie, Dale
214–17
,
228
,
244
,
257

 

Hadramaut peoples
157
,
175

haematite ‘pencils’
121

Hammer, Mike
188

Han ethnic group
227

Hanish al Kubra
79

Harrison, Tom
166

Haua Fteah
139

Haynes, C. Vance
283
,
287
,
288
,
291
,
292
,
293

Hearths
104–6

Hebior site
293

heredity
see
genetics

Heyerdahl, Thor
xvii

Higgins, Jesse
282

Himalayas
219

Ho paternal line (group O)
239
,
265

Holmes, William Henry
281

Homo
genus
7
,
10–11
,
25
,
30
,
72

Homo erectus
xvi
,
10
,
14–15
,
16
,
23
,
30
,
68
,
72
,
98
,
271

Homo ergaster
9
,
10
,
14
,
69

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