Title:
Dynamics of learning in Neanderthals and modern humans, volume 1: cultural perspectives / Takeru Akazawa, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Kenichi Aoki, editors.
Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series
Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series.
Author:
International Conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning" (2012 : Tokyo, Japan)
Akazawa, Takeru, 1938, editor of compilation.
Nishiaki, Yoshihiro, editor of compilation.
Aoki, Kenichi, 1948, editor of compilation.
General Notes:
"Proceedings of the International Conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning", organized by Takeru Akazawa, Shunichi Amari, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ralph L. Holloway, Shiro Ishii, Tasuku Kimura, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima, and Minoru Yoneda, which took place in Tokyo, November 18-24, 2012.", "Proceedings of the International Conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning", organized by Takeru Akazawa, Shunichi Amari, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ralph L. Holloway, Shiro Ishii, Tasuku Kimura, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima, and Minoru Yoneda, which took place in Tokyo, November 18-24, 2012."
"The 43 submitted manuscripts ... to be published as two volumes in the Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series." (Preface), "Proceedings of the International Conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning", organized by Takeru Akazawa, Shunichi Amari, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ralph L. Holloway, Shiro Ishii, Tasuku Kimura, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima, and Minoru Yoneda, which took place in Tokyo, November 18-24, 2012."
Publisher:
Springer,
Publication Place:
Tokyo ; Heidelberg ; New York :
ISBN:
9784431545101 (hbk.)
4431545107 (hbk.)
Subject:
Neanderthals -- Congresses.
Human evolution -- Congresses.
Learning ability -- Congresses.
Social evolution -- Congresses.
Craniology -- Congresses.
Series:
Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series
Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series.
Contents:
Cultural perspectives. Introduction / Neanderthals and modern humans across Eurasia / Neandertal-modern human contact in western Eurasia : issues of dating, taxonomy, and cultural associations / Issues of chronological and geographical distributions of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cultural variability in the Levant and implications for the learning behavior of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens / The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Siberia : three regional sketches for replacement / Cultural transmission, institutional continuity and the persistence of the Mousterian / Cultural and biological transformations in the Middle Pleistocene Levant : a view from Qesem Cave, Israel / The evolutionary development of learning and teaching strategies in human societies / Using lithic refitting to investigate the skill learning process : lessons from Upper Paleolithic assemblages at the Shirataki sites in Hokkaido, northern Japan / "Gifting" as a means of cultural transmission : the archaeological implications of bow-and-arrow technology in Papua New Guinea / "Ekeloko" the spirit to create : innovation and social learning among Aka adolescents of the Central African rainforest / Determinants of cultural evolutionary rates / Exploring cultural niche construction from the Paleolithic to modern hunter-gatherers / The effects of cross-boundary rituals on cultural innovation / A simulation study on the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in Europe : implications of climate change, cultural diversification, and the shape of the continent / Cultural evolution and learning strategies in hominids / A mathematical model of cultural interactions between modern and archaic humans / A perspective on evolutionary models of learning strategies /
Cognitive and physical perspectives / Introduction / Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens : does the use of pigment necessarily imply symbolic thought? / Comparisons between individual, imitative and instructed learning / Ability to objectify conventional styles of problem-solving : a hypothesis on the difference in learning ability between modern humans and Neanderthals / Cognitive flexibility and making objects in Baka Pygmy children / Demonstration of resilience in the drawings of Baka Pygmy children / Social learning, trial-and-error, and creativity / Experimental studies of modern human social and individual learning in an archaeological context : people behave adaptively, but within limits / Motion analysis for stone-knapping of the skilled Levallois technique / Daily physical activity and time-space using of Pygmy hunter-gatherers' children in southeast Cameroon / Estimation of the period of childhood and child growth characteristics of Pygmy hunter-gatherers in southeast Cameroon / Interpretations of practical population genetics analyses of genome-wide SNP data on human demography / Functional craniology, human evolution, and anatomical constraints in the Neanderthal braincase / Cerebral sulci and gyri observed on macaque endocasts / Coronal suture as an indicator of the caudal border of the macaque monkey prefrontal cortex / Application of sliding landmark method for morphological analysis of modern Japanese neurocranial shape / Geometric morphometric study of neurocranial shape variations in the crania of modern Japanese / Statistical interpolation of missing parts in human crania using regularized multivariate linear regression analysis / Transferring semi-landmarks by minimizing bending energy on surfaces / CT image segmentation for bone structures using image-based FEM / Virtual endocast of Qafzeh 9 : a preliminary assessment of right-left asymmetry / Reconstruction of the brain from skull fossils using computational anatomy / Integrated analytical scheme for comparing the Neanderthal brain to modern human brain using neuroimaging techniques / Cerebellar size estimation from endocranial measurements : an evaluation based on MRI data / Sense of acceptance : key factor of social learning / Brain activation related to the imitative learning of bodily actions observed during the construction of a Mousterian stone tool : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study / Neural substrates associated with motivation to learn in modern humans / Kei Mizuno.
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps ;
Formatted Contents Note:
Volume 1.
Volume 2. edited by The The The The A
Publication Date:
2013.
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