Rilanciano il tema gli editorialisti di ScienceWeek che ne tracciano un interessante sommario: A Neandertal (Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) is a kind of human that lived in Europe and Western Asia until around 30,000 years ago. The first Neandertal skeleton was found by quarry workers in 1856 in the Neander… Prima di segnalare le notizie riguardanti il tema in oggetto eccovi una introduzione all’evoluzione degli esseri umani che trovate presso questi siti web. -Il testo completo sull’evoluzione umana proveniente da:A Review of Current Research on Human Evolution By David L. Alles, Department of Biology, Joan C. Stevenson, Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. This web paper is based on the article updated on 2006: Alles, D. L. and Stevenson, J. C. (2003). Teaching Human Evolution.The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 65, No. 5(May), 333-339. -La presentazione in PowerPoint: The Homo Radiation -Alcuni siti web presenti nel sito web del ns. collaboratore Dr. Formenti -Trascrizione del testo del film della PBS/NOVA online: Neanderthals on Trial -Il portale In search of Neanderthals -Un pò di ossa dal sito web dell’ Università del Michigan -Il saggio apparso sullo Smithsonian Magazine nel 2003, Rethinking Neanderthals -Il film Becoming Human dal sito omonimo -La mappa dell’evoluzione dell’uomo Ed eccovi ora le pubblicazioni sulle ultime ricerche: Originale la teoria economica del seguente articolo: How trade saved humanity from biological exclusion: an economic theory of Neanderthal extinction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 58, Issue 1, September 2005, Pages 1-29 Richard D. Horan, Erwin Bulte and Jason F. Shogren La rivista Quaternary International (Vol. 137, n. 1, Luglio 2005) dedica l’intero fascicolo al problema. Ecco il sommario: Lawrence Guy Straus. On the demise of the Neandertals Fred H. Smith, Ivor Jankovic and Ivor Karavanic. The assimilation model, modern human origins in Europe, and the extinction of Neandertals Bryan Hockett and Jonathan A. Haws. Nutritional ecology and the human demography of Neandertal extinction J.R. Stewart. The ecology and adaptation of Neanderthals during the non-analogue environment of Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 Lawrence Guy Straus. A mosaic of change: the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition as viewed from New Mexico and Iberia Jiri A. Svoboda. The Neandertal extinction in eastern Central Europe Pierre M. Vermeersch. European population changes during Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 N. Catto. Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation Mellars P. Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe. Nature. 2004 Nov 25;432(7016):461-5. Currat M, Excoffier L. Modern humans did not admix with Neanderthals during their range expansion into Europe. PLoS Biol. 2004 Dec;2(12):e421 Gamble C, Davies W, Pettitt P, Richards M. Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2004 Feb 29;359(1442):243-53; discussion 253-4. Serre D, Langaney A, Chech M, Teschler-Nicola M, Paunovic M, Mennecier P, Hofreiter M, Possnert G, Paabo S. No evidence of Neandertal mtDNA contribution to early modern humans. PLoS Biol. 2004 Mar;2(3):E57 Jankovic I. Neandertals…150 years later. Coll Antropol. 2004;28 Suppl 2:379-401.