Early Hominids & Human Evolution

ISBN: 9780747598398
Published by : Bloomsbury
Told in the style of a detective story, or travelogue, this book, which accompanied a BBC TV series, follows the contours of human evolution and the expansion over the earth's continents by modern humans. Using a lively first person style Alice... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781408802885
Published by : Bloomsbury
Told in the style of a detective story, or travelogue, this book, which accompanied a BBC TV series, follows the contours of human evolution and the expansion over the earth's continents by modern humans. Using a lively first person style Alice... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199239191
Published by : Oxford University Press
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780316070089
Published by : Little, Brown and Company
An accessible account of the discovery and analysis of Ida, an astonishingly complete 47 million year old primate fossil, and its implications for human evolution. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861591725
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 172
John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520252899
Published by : University of California Press
This ambitious yet highly readable study aims to do nothing less than "tearing down the veil of prehistory". Professor Smail argues that our division of human chronology into prehistoric and historic with its emphasis on the birth of civilizati... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520251205
Published by : University of California Press
This volume, the first in a series devoted to the paleoanthropological resources of the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia, studies Homo erectus, a close relative of Homo sapiens. It further provides the first detailed descriptions, photographs, a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199581580
Published by : Oxford University Press
This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. To investigate the evolutionary origins of this prodigious ability, Peter MacNeilage draws on work in linguistics, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and animal behaviour. He puts fo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195167122
Published by : Oxford University Press
This book narrates the story of human biological and cultural evolution, from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution of the Neolithic. It concludes with ... .... Learn More