Early Hominids & Human Evolution
The study of human origins: evolution, early hominids, neanderthals, homo sapiens.
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered [Hardback]
Dimitra Papagianni (Author); Michael A. Morse (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780500051771
Published by : Thames and Hudson
For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in recent years their story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and advances... .... Learn More -
Early Hominin Paleoecology [Hardback]
Kaye E Reed (Author); Peter Ungar (Author); Julia A Lee-Thorp (Author); Matthew Sponhiemer (Author)
£49.99ISBN: 9781607322245
Published by : UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
n introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, explorin... .... Learn More -
Creating the Human Past [Paperback]
Robert Bednarik (Author)
£14.95ISBN: 9781905739639
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
This book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, togeth... .... Learn More -
Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting and Human Evolution [Hardback]
Travis R. Pickering (Author)
Regular Price: £41.95
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780520274006
Published by : University of California Press
Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range an... .... Learn More -
Evolution of Mind, Brain and Culture [Hardback]
Gary Hatfield (Author); Holly Pittman (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9781934536490
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Descartes boldly claimed: "I think, therefore I am." But one might well ask: Why do we think? How? When and why did our human ancestors develop language and culture? In other words, what makes the human mind human? Evolu... .... Learn More -
From Primitives to Primates [Paperback]
David Van Reybrouck (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9789088900952
Published by : Sidestone Press
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th cen... .... Learn More -
How Culture Makes Us Human [Hardback]
Dwight D. Read (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9781598745887
Published by : Left Coast Press
What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, tak... .... Learn More -
How Culture Makes Us Human [Paperback]
Dwight D. Read (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9781598745894
Published by : Left Coast Press
What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, tak... .... Learn More -
Pterosaurs: Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs [Paperback]
Andre J Veldmeijer (Author); Mark Witton (Author); Ilja Nieuwland (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9789088900938
Published by : Sidestone Press
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 m... .... Learn More -
The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art and Evolution [Hardback]
Stephen Davies (Author)
Regular Price: £27.50
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780199658541
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing ... .... Learn More
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