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ErectusWalks Amongst Us

The evolution of modern humans

by

Richard D. Fuerle Spooner Press, NY

Copyright 2008 ISBN 978-1-60458-121-8 Printed in the United States by Lightning Source <<<<<<>>>>>> Table of Contents
v Preface vi Acknowledgments vii Introduction Section I WHAT EVERY PALEOANTHROPOLOGIST SHOULD KNOW 1 Chapter 1 A Story of the Origin of Humans 2 Chapter 2 Early Humans 6 Chapter 3 DNA 12 Chapter 4 Evolution 16 Chapter 5 Selectors 30 Chapter 6 Neoteny 37 Chapter 7 Genetic Distance 41 Chapter 8 Evolutionary Psychology 49 Section II Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 TRAITS OF LIVING POPULATIONS Hard Tissue Soft Tissue Reproductive Strategy Behavior Genes Intelligence 56 58 72 84 89 100 106

Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Section III Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Section IV Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Section V Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37

Civilizations and Achievements Primitive Traits THE OUT-OF-AFRICA THEORY Fossil Skulls Modern Behavior MtDNA Population Differences in MtDNA Nuclear DNA Replacement THE OUT-OF-EURASIA THEORY The Bipedal Apes The Origin of the Eurasians The Neanderthals The Origin of Africans The Origin of Asian Aborigines POLICY Homo africanus Miscegenation Hybrid Vigor Segregation Eugenics Re-Classifying the Left Egalitarianism Individualism Morality Which Way Western Man? Appendix (DNA) Glossary Recommended Reading References Index 292 295 299 300 338

123 134 141 144 152 155 160 168 172 180 186 196 208 218 230 235 236 240 247 256 260 266 272 277 282 288

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Other works by the author

Home Page Some articles and poems

The Pure Logic of Choice The basis of Austrian Economics A New Theory of Natural A theory of natural rights deduced from free will Rights Musical Compositions A light opera about the Whiskey Rebellion and a few other compositions.

On the Steppes of Central A libertarian novel about a student in Mongolia Asia

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True False 1. Race does not exist - a black person is just a white person with a suntan and wooly hair. 2. All the races are equally intelligent. 3. White racism is responsible for black failures. 4. Africans were the first modern humans. 5. Humans evolved in Africa from an African ape. 6. The people living today who are most closely related to apes live in the Amazon jungle. 7. A woman is always more closely related to her own child than she is to any other child.

If you answered True to these questions, when you read this book drink a glass of wine while listening to a recording of the ocean surf. The author is a retired patent attorney who lives on a small wildlife refuge on an island in upstate of New York. A perpetual student, he has degrees in math (BS), law (JD), economics (MA), physics (BA), and chemistry (BA). He is an amateur composer (www.whiskeyrebellion.us) and has written books on Austrian economics (www.purelogic.us), natural rights (www.naturalrights.us), and anarchy (www.anarchism.net/steppes.htm).