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Human Brain Evolution
Wiley 2010; US$ 149.95The evolution of the human brain and cognitive ability is one of the central themes of physical/biological anthropology. This book discusses the emergence of human cognition at a conceptual level, describing it as a process of long adaptive stasis interrupted by short periods of cognitive advance. These advances were not linear and directed, but were... more...
The 10,000 Year Explosion
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.95Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that our species is still measurably evolving in important ways?in fact, faster than ever before. more...
The Evolving Female
Princeton University Press 1996; US$ 56.50A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual female plays out the stages of her life--from infancy, through the reproductive period, to old... more...
Almost Chimpanzee
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 15.99The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans and our closest primate cousins. For the past several... more...
Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature
Springer 2010; US$ 47.99To understand why we humans are as we are, it is necessary to look at the essential building blocks that comprise our nature. The foundations of this structure are our evolutionary origins as primates and our social roots. Upon these rest features such as our emotions, language and aesthetic preferences, with our self-perceptions, self-deceptions and... more...
Born in Africa
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 14.99Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa , Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about human origins made... more...
Bones of Contention
Baker Publishing Group 2004; US$ 28.00Seeking to disprove the theory of human evolution, the author examines the fossils of the so-called "ape men." more...
Written in Stone
Icon Books 2011; US$ 11.65Darwin?s theory was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms were nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of ?transitional fossils? was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondering if the these ?missing links? had been so quick that no trace of them was left.However,... more...
The Rhythms Of Life
Profile 2011; US$ 15.98Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same... more...
The Human Lineage
Wiley 2011; US$ 124.95"This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in paleoanthropology courses, tackles a rather difficult task—that of presenting the substantial body of paleontological, genetic, geological and archaeological evidence regarding human evolution, and the associated scientific history, in a logical and readable way without sacrificing... more...









