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are there any books you could recommend to me on the "validity of race" or on the origins of neandertals

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Dear Sade
Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari.  The title is "Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction".
this is probably the best source for these issues.  How anthropologists think about race and Neandertals are often entangled in one another -both views originating in similar underlying models of human variability.
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John Shea

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John Shea

Expertise

Questions about Old World prehistoric archaeology (especially Stone Age) of Europe, Africa, and Western Asia, prehistoric human and hominid behavior, primitive technology, origin of modern humans, extinction of the Neandertals.

Experience

>20 years as a professional anthropologist based at a research university.

Publications
Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Lithic Technology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Mitekufat HaEven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society), Paléorient, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, American Anthropologist, Geoarchaeology.

Education/Credentials
Ph.D (Anthropology) Harvard University, 1991.
BA (Archaeology) Boston University, 1982.

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