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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Geological Background to Human Evolution
part |2 pages
Part II The Earliest Hominids: Biomolecular and Morphological Evidence
part |3 pages
Part III Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Relatives
part |3 pages
Part IV Origin of the Genus Homo and Early Evolution in Africa
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
part |3 pages
Part IX Evolution of Homo sapiens