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1	The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man more books like this by Amir D Aczel, PhD add to wishlist From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Fermat's Last Theorem" comes a story of discovery, evolution, science, and faith, involving French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his beloved Catholic Church. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors more books like this by Ann Gibbons add to wishlist This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Human Osteology more books like this by White, Folkens add to wishlist "Human Osteology, Second Edition" is designed for students and professionals who wish to advance their osteological skills in terms of accurately identifying human skeletal remains, however isolated and fragmentary. These remains can then be used to deduce information about the original lives of the deceased individuals. This book will continue to ... see all copies from $33.00! new only from $72.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution more books like this by Ian Tattersall add to wishlist This book surveys the history of human evolution studies. The author begins with the 18th-century French naturalist, the Comte de Buffon, and concludes with recent evidence that homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted on the planet. In addition, he addresses speculation about a possible rescue of humanity from itself by additional evolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Genes, peoples and languages more books like this by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza add to wishlist Do the languages and genes of living people contain a historical record of the species? The pioneering work of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza has answered this question with a decisive yes. "Genes, Peoples and Languages" serves as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past ... see all copies from $5.27! new only from $10.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind more books like this by Donald C Johanson add to wishlist The story of one of the most important fossil finds in man's search for his ancestors - the 60per cent complete female hominid skeleton nicknamed "Lucy". Confirming beyond doubt the early bipedal nature of human ancestors, she was discovered in 1973 in Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by Johanson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis more books like this by Glenn C Conroy add to wishlist The field of paleoanthropology has undergone tremendous change and growth since the 1970s. This book is a synthesis of the many areas of research in this field, examining all aspects of the fossil record - paleoecological, morphological and archaeological - to throw light on the process of human evolution from our primate ancestors to modern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans more books like this by G J Sawyer (Text by), Viktor Deak, Ian Tattersall add to wishlist This book tells the story of human evolution, the epic of homosapiens and its colourful precursors and relatives. The story begins in Africa, six to seven million years ago, and encompasses twenty known human species, of which homosapiens are the sole survivor. Illustrated with spectacular, three-dimensional scientific reconstructions portrayed in ... see all copies from $17.25! new only from $29.00! \| SVS
9	Extinct Humans more books like this by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H Schwartz, Ph.D. add to wishlist An assessment of human evolution that theorizes that many more species of humans than previously thought have existed during the six million year history of the hominid family.. Scientists have long envisioned the human family tree as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous ... see all copies from $2.57! new only from $16.02! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The human career human biological and cultural origins more books like this by Klein add to wishlist Chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. The work stresses late-1990s advances in knowledge, including ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
11 view cover	A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia more books like this by Penny Van Oosterzee, Mike Morwood add to wishlist Morwood's discovery of an extinct people on the Indonesian island of Flores challenged long-held views about where and how humans evolved. Informative and entertaining, "A New Human" is an accessible introduction to a contentious debate over what it means to be human. see all copies from $3.06! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	Human Evolution: Trails from the Past more books like this by Francisco J Ayala, Camilo J Cela-Conde add to wishlist Human Evolution provides a comprehensive overview of hominid evolution, synthesising data and approaches from fields as diverse as physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, genetics, archaeology, psychology and philosophy. The book starts with chapters on evolution, population genetics, systematics, and the methods for ... see all copies from $36.15! new only from $67.45!
13 view cover	Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came from more books like this by Catherine Thimmesh add to wishlist Illustrated in full color with stunning computer-generated artwork and with rare paleo photography, this story of scientific sleuthing invites readers to wonder what our ancestors were like and recounts the discovery of the remains of Lucy, the world's most famous hominid. see all copies from $5.36! new only from $8.80! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory more books like this by Kenneth L Feder add to wishlist Ideal for Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory courses, and geared toward students with little-to-no previous coursework in the subject area, The Past in Perspective, Fourth Edition is an engaging, up-to-date, chronological introduction to human prehistory. Written in a conversational, appealing tone, Kenneth L. Feder introduces ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils more books like this by Marvin L Lubenow add to wishlist This is the most complete and accurate critique of the fossils of the so-called 'ape men.' The myth of human evolution is completely demolished. The last chapter, repudiating the compromising views of many modern evangelicals on this subject, is illuminating. Lubenow has made an invaluable contribution to scientific biblical creationism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $46.62! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind more books like this by Erik Trinkaus, Pat Shipman add to wishlist In 1856 - just as Darwin was completing "Origin of Species" - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in Germany. Opinions about Neandertal Man have veered wildly ever since: he was not human at all, but closer to ape, he was human but not ancient; he was a cannibal, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans more books like this by Chris Beard, Mark Klingler (Illustrator) add to wishlist Taking us back roughly 45 million years into the Eocene, 'the dawn of recent life,' Chris Beard, a world-renowned expert on the primate fossil record, offers a tantalizing new perspective on our deepest evolutionary roots. In a fast-paced narrative full of vivid stories from the field, he reconstructs our extended family tree, showing that the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	First in Line: Tracing Our Ape Ancestry more books like this by Professor Tom Gundling add to wishlist Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ancestors. Remains of the australopiths, as these bipedal apes are now called, were first discovered in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Understanding Human Evolution more books like this by Jeffrey Kevin McKee, Frank E Poirier, W Scott McGraw add to wishlist For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology--the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains. It includes the latest fossil finds, attempts ... see all copies from $41.44! new only from $74.00!
20 view cover	The World from Beginnings to 4000 Bce more books like this by Ian Tattersall add to wishlist To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both the fossil and archeological ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.58! \| SVS
21 view cover	Human Origins: The Fossil Record more books like this by Clark Spencer Larsen, Maximus add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition more books like this by Richard G Klein add to wishlist Since its publication in 1989, "The Human Career" has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein's innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution. Klein ... see all copies from $76.00! new only from $76.00! \| SVS
23 view cover	Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness more books like this by Ian Tattersall add to wishlist The author seeks out discontinuity in human evolution, and aims to identify the things that really make humans different from other species. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal more books like this by Erik Trinkaus, Erik Trinkhaus add to wishlist To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals' fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 1970s, the Neandertals were being praised for their apparent compassion. This work reveals how different scientists came to such wildly divergent conclusions. Photos and illustrations. see all copies from $1.99!
25 view cover	The Early Human World more books like this by Peter Robertshaw, Jill Rubalcaba add to wishlist A six-million-year-old jaw bone in Ethiopia proves to be a piece of the earliest hominid discovered-so far. Big Mama, who used a tree branch to escape from a zoo in Holland, is found sipping chocolate milk at a local restaurant. Nandy, a 50,000-year-old skeleton surrounded by flower pollen in Iraq, casts doubt on the beastly reputation of an early ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $11.00! \| SVS

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	The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Francesco Cavalli-Sforza see all from $1.99! new only from $8.37!
	Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor by Dr. Donald Johanson, James Shreeve see all from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
	The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall, Donald C Johanson (Foreword by) see all from $3.98! new only from $17.06!
	From Lucy to language by Donald C. Johanson, Blake Edgar see all from $2.71! new only from $19.74!
	In Search of the Neanderthals by Chris Stringer, Clive Gamble see all from $1.99! new only from $81.88!
	Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins by Roger Lewin see all from $1.99! new only from $5.75!