Hominids, Energy, Environment, and Behavior in the Late Pleistocene

摘要: From the first recognition of Western European Neandertals as physically distinct from present-day Homo sapiens, significance these differences for relationships between two kinds hominids has been a topic continuing debate among students human evolution. The nature and substance arguments have described in detail elsewhere (e.g., Klein 1989; Trinkaus Howells 1979) will not be treated extensively here. Some basic questions around which discussions centered concern possible intellectual physical abilities, genetic forms. Despite length time considered, there is still relatively little general agreement on interpretation this Late Pleistocene fossil cultural evidence. discussion below an attempt to integrate some cultural, biological, paleoenvironmental evidence interpretive framework that emphasizes potentially meaningful variables may take us closer answers early examples like ourselves.