Foreword / by Joseph O. Vogel
Modern human origins : a people without history
Historical perspectives : the place of humans in nature
The palaeoenvironmental context : the origin and dispersal of modern humans
The chronological framework : dating the appearance and spread of homo sapiens
Out of Africa : when and how many times? Alternative models of modern human origins
Mitochondrial Eve and the Middle Stone Age : genetics and human variation
The fossil hominin evidence
The archaeological evidence from North Africa
The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa I
The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa II
Conclusions: What does it mean to be a modern homo sapiens?