Abstract
C. Finlayson 2004.Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 255 pp. ISBN 0-521-82087, price (hardbound), $85.00. This book discusses competition, overspecialization, and hybridization of anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals. More broadly, these issues concern speciation, species recognition, and competitive exclusion. Stepping back from previous analyses of modern human origins, Clive Finlayson delves into the ecology and evolution of these 2 hominid groups. He addresses one of science's hottest questions, what happened to the Neanderthals? Neanderthals and Modern Humans begins by journeying through competing hypotheses, all presented in a fair and thorough manner, although readers are aware of Finlayson's stance on each. Additional questions in the field of paleoanthropology are gradually introduced, …
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