The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution more books like this

by Ian Tattersall

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.

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Fossil Legends of the First Americans more books like this

by Adrienne Mayor

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and ...

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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

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 ...

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Human Evolution: Trails from the Past more books like this

by Francisco J Ayala, Camilo J Cela-Conde

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 ...

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After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination more books like this

by Kirkpatrick Sale

When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an ...

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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans more books like this

by Chris Beard, Mark Klingler (Illustrator)

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 ...

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First in Line: Tracing Our Ape Ancestry more books like this

by Professor Tom Gundling

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 ...

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Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains more books like this

by Jane E Buikstra (Editor), Lane Anderson Beck (Editor)

The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities. ...

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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory: Exploring Our Human Ancestry more books like this

by Patricia C Rice, Norah Moloney

Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past. *Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory, this text exposes students to the many sides of major controversial issues, involving ...

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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? more books like this

by Jan Zalasiewicz

Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what will remain of humanity's brief but dramatic sojourn on planet Earth. He tells how geologists in the far future - perhaps an alien species re-discovering Earth - might piece together the history of the ...

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Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I: Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II: Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III: Phylogeny of Hominids more books like this

by Winfried Henke

Paleoanthropology is perhaps the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences. Any complete account of the evolution and cultural and biological context of Homo sapiens must combine information from geology, paleoecology, primatology, evolutionary biology and a host of other fields. Above all, historical information needs to be combined with, and ...

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Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory more books like this

by Carl P Lipo (Editor), Dr. Michael J O'Brien (Editor), Mark Collard (Editor)

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. This book demonstrates how various genealogical or phylogenetic methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history. The structure of the book reflects the editors goal of developing a common understanding of the methods and ...

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The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China more books like this

by Sigrid Schmalzer

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing superstition and establishing a ...

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Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds more books like this

by Ed Ishida H, F Zimmermann, Hidemi Ishida (Editor)

Advances in fossil studies relating to the origin of Homo sapiens have strengthened the hypothesis that our direct ancestors originated on the African continent. Most researchers also agree that the time when prehumans diverged from the last common ancestor was in the early part of the Late Miocene epoch. Focus must now shift from determining the ...

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Debating Humankind's Place in Nature; 1860-2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology more books like this

by Richard G Delisle

For junior/senior courses in Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology in Anthropology departments. This text, the only one of its kind on the market, surveys the development of the field of human evolution from its inception through today. It provides students with a broad contrast enabling them to fully understand the value and role of current ...

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Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia more books like this

by Yohannes Haile-Selassie (Editor), Giday Woldegabriel (Editor)

The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the early hominid Ardipithecus kadabba. This research by an international team describes Middle Awash late Miocene faunal assemblages recovered from ...

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Modern Humans more books like this

by Rebecca Stefoff

This series takes readers on a journey through the evolutionary history of humans.

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The Geology of Early Humans in the Horn of Africa more books like this

by Geological Society of America

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