The Origins Of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered

"In 1984, Fred Smith and Frank Spencer introduced The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence, a volume which introduced two of the major theories of human evolution that would be debated for the next twenty years. The book went on to win Best Book in the Life Sciences 1984. Now Smith, with Jim Ahern, has compiled the second edition of this field classic, incorporating the latest information in paleontological, genetic and developmental biology to pick up where the first edition left off and push the debate forward for the next twenty years"--

Fred Smith is Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Illinois State University and a past president of the American Association of Physical Anthropology. A noted authority on neanderthal and early modern human evolution, Dr. Smith has a 40 year record of thought-leading publications.

Jim Ahern is Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Ahern's research has covered many aspects of human biological and biocultural evolution, ranging from work on the origin of the hominin lineage to the peopling of the Americas.