Entries cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness.
Presents coverage of the many recent innovations and discoveries that are transforming the subject
Brings together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa
Covers the full extent of current knowledge in paleoanthropology, encompassing a vast range of techniques drawn from geology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology.
Provides a novel focus on adaptive explanations for cranial and postcranial features and functional complexes, socioecological systems, life history patterns, etc. in early primates.
Overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understand biological and disease processes throughout human history.
Critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology.
A completely revised understanding of human evolution, due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science.
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
Selection of topics in human evolution, variation and adaptability for professionals in biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, medical sciences and psychology.
Updated to include the issues and controversies facing the contemporary study of diversity.
Textbook designed to cover the key contemporary topics in the study of human variation and human biology within the field of physical anthropology.
Human Paleobiology provides a unifying framework for the study of human populations, both past and present, to a range of changing environments.
The Primate Origins of Human Nature blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. It strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features.
Presents molecular anthropology--a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics--as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution.
