ABSTRACT

For Junior, Senior, and Graduate courses in Human Evolution taught in anthropology and biology departments.


This book is the most comprehensive collection of cutting edge articles on human evolution.  Designed for use by students in anthropology, paleontology, and evolutionary biology, this edited volume brings together the major ideas and publications on human evolution of the past three decades. The book spans the entire scope of human evolution with particular emphasis on the fossil record, including archaeological studies.

part |2 pages

Part I Geological Background to Human Evolution

part |2 pages

Part II The Earliest Hominids: Biomolecular and Morphological Evidence

chapter 9|5 pages

African Apes as Time Machines

part |3 pages

Part III Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Relatives

chapter 19|7 pages

Tempo and Mode in Human Evolution

chapter 21|8 pages

Evolution of Human Walking

part |3 pages

Part IV Origin of the Genus Homo and Early Evolution in Africa

chapter 26|6 pages

The History of the Genus Homo

part |3 pages

Part V Evolution and Dispersal of Homo erectus

part |3 pages

Part VI Middle Pleistocene Hominids in Africa, Europe, and Asia

part |2 pages

Part VII The Neandertals

part |3 pages

Part VIII Origin of Modern Humans

chapter 64|14 pages

Fully Modern Humans

part |3 pages

Part IX Evolution of Homo sapiens

chapter 68|5 pages

Multiregional, Not Multiple Origins

chapter 71|9 pages

Out of Africa Again and Again