Náttúrufræðingurinn - 2023, Qupperneq 24

1. Papagianni, D. & Morse, M.A. 2022. The Neanderthals rediscovered:
How modern science is rewriting their story. Thames and Hudson,
London. 208 bls. (Sjá bls. 18 og 189; frumútg. 2013).
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cave for 57,000 years. Smithsonian Magazine, 21. júní. https://www.smithson-
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Tíminn, 7. desember. 8−9.
7. Hooton, E.A. 1931. Up from the ape. Macmillan, New York. 787 bls.
8. Gísli Pálsson 2003. Frægð og firnindi: Ævi Vilhjálms Stefánssonar.
Mál og menning, Reykjavík. 415 bls.
9. Elliott, C. 2023. Why Iceland wants its medieval skulls back. National
Geographic, 1888, 3. ágúst https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/
article/iceland-skulls-peabody-harvard-hastings-stefansson-haffjararey
10. Gísli Pálsson & Sigurður Örn Guðbjörnsson 2012. Homo islandicus
– inn að beini. Tímarit Máls og menningar 73(4). 4−24.
11. Pääbo, S. 2014. Neanderthal man: In search of lost genomes.
Cornell University Press, New York. 288 bls.
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E.A., Margrét S. Einarsdóttir, Hákon Jónsson, Bjarni Halldórsson, Daníel F.
Guðbjartsson, Agnar Helgason, Schierup, M.H. & Kári Stefánsson. 2020. The
nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes.
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13. Hawks, J. 2023. What color were Neandertals? Á vefsetri Johns Hawks.
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haired%2C%20and%20brown%20eyed
14. Chung, J. 2016. TECHEBLOG 9. september. What a Neanderthal might
look like today in modern clothes and 18 more cool pictures. Slóð (skoðað
26.10.2023): https://www.techeblog.com/what-a-neanderthal-might-look-like-
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15. Einar Már Guðmundsson 1980. Er nokkur í kórónafötum hér inni?
Mál og menning, Reykjavík. 143 bls.
HEIMILDIR
Gísli Pálsson prófessor emeritus í mannfræði við Há-
skóla Íslands. Hann lauk doktorsprófi frá Manchester-
háskóla árið 1982, hefur síðan fjallað um margs konar
viðfangsefni, mörg hver tengd umhverfismálum. Meðal
bóka hans eru The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great
Auk and the Discovery of Extinction (töluvert breytt útgáfa
á Fuglinum sem gat ekki flogið), The Human Age: How We
Created the Anthropocene Epoch and Caused the Climate
Crisis (2020), Maðurinn sem stal sjálfum sér (2017) og
Nature, Culture, and Society: Anthropological Perspectives
on Life (2015).
Gísli Pálsson
Hrólfsskálamel 3
170 Seltjarnarnesi
gipalsson@gmail.com
UM HÖFUNDINN
Ég þakka Agnari Helgasyni, Helga Bernódussyni
og Rósu Signýju Gísladóttur fyrir afar gagnlegar
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