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Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 2

Cognitive and Physical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Takeru Akazawa

    1. Kochi University of Technology, Research Institute, Kami-shi, Japan

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  2. Naomichi Ogihara

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

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  3. Hiroki C Tanabe

    1. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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  4. Hideaki Terashima

    1. Department of Human Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan

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  • Proposing and validating the novel hypothesis that the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans took place because of differences in learning ability
  • Providing up-to-date information on the research of Neanderthals and Modern Humans
  • Promoting and facilitating an interdisciplinary research framework and lasting cooperation across the disciplines

Part of the book series: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series (RNMH)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima, Takeru Akazawa
    Pages 1-3

  3. Cognition and Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens: Does the Use of Pigment Necessarily Imply Symbolic Thought?

      • Steven Mithen
      Pages 7-16

    3. Comparisons Between Individual, Imitative and Instructed Learning

      • Juko Ando
      Pages 17-23

    4. The Ability to Objectify Conventional Styles of Problem-Solving: A Hypothesis on the Difference in Learning Ability Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals

      • Keiichi Omura
      Pages 25-31

    5. Cognitive Flexibility and Making Objects in Baka Pygmy Children

      • Tadashi Koyama
      Pages 33-37

    6. The Demonstration of Resilience in the Drawings of Baka Pygmy Children

      • Eiko Yamagami
      Pages 39-48

    7. Social Learning, Trial-and-Error, and Creativity

      • Nobuyuki Takahashi, Ayaka Hatano, Misato Inaba, Ryoichi Onoda, Dora Simunovic
      Pages 49-63

    8. Experimental Studies of Modern Human Social and Individual Learning in an Archaeological Context: People Behave Adaptively, But Within Limits

      • Alex Mesoudi
      Pages 65-76

  5. Reconstruction of Fossil Crania and Brain Morphology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Functional Craniology, Human Evolution, and Anatomical Constraints in the Neanderthal Braincase

      • Emiliano Bruner
      Pages 121-129

    3. Cerebral Sulci and Gyri Observed on Macaque Endocasts

      • Yasushi Kobayashi, Toshiyasu Matsui, Yoshinori Haizuka, Naomichi Ogihara, Naoki Hirai, George Matsumura
      Pages 131-137

    4. The Coronal Suture as an Indicator of the Caudal Border of the Macaque Monkey Prefrontal Cortex

      • Yasushi Kobayashi, Toshiyasu Matsui, Yoshinori Haizuka, Naomichi Ogihara, Naoki Hirai, George Matsumura
      Pages 139-143

    5. Application of Sliding Landmark Method for Morphological Analysis of Modern Japanese Neurocranial Shape

      • Naomichi Ogihara, Yusuke Morita, Hideki Amano, Osamu Kondo, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masato Nakatsukasa
      Pages 145-152
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About this book

This volume is the second of two volumes of proceedings from the International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place in Tokyo in November 2012. This second volume reports, in four major sections, findings by cultural anthropologists, physical anthropologists, engineering scientists and neurophysiologists, integrated in multidisciplinary fashion to solidify the overall understanding of the mechanics of replacement from cognitive and physical perspectives. Part 1 provides examinations of replacement related questions from various perspectives in cognition and psychology. Part 2, consisting of studies rooted in body science and genetics, provides detailed findings which fill in the broader frame of the replacement phenomenon. Part 3 presents a collection of papers whose findings about fossil crania and brain morphology shed direct light on immediate questions regarding replacement. Part 4 provides illuminations similar to those in part 3, but arising from the analytical empowerment afforded by neuroscience. The collection of 26 papers in this volume makes available to readers both broad and narrow insights on the mechanisms of the replacement/assimilation of Neanderthals by modern humans and at the same time provides a model of new-paradigm multidisciplinary collaboration on a complex problem.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kochi University of Technology, Research Institute, Kami-shi, Japan

    Takeru Akazawa

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

    Naomichi Ogihara

  • Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Hiroki C Tanabe

  • Department of Human Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan

    Hideaki Terashima

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 2

  • Book Subtitle: Cognitive and Physical Perspectives

  • Editors: Takeru Akazawa, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima

  • Series Title: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54553-8

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54552-1Published: 11 February 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56173-6Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54553-8Published: 27 January 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2365-063X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-0648

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Archaeology

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