Early Hominids & Human Evolution
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From Primitives to Primates: A History of Ethnographic and Primatological Analogies in the Study of Prehistory [Hardback]
David Van Reybrouck (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789088904752
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 century to this day ... .... Learn More -
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa: Physical and Human Dimensions [Hardback]
Jasper Knight (Editor); Stefan W. Grab (Editor)
Regular Price: £105.00
Special Price: £70.00
ISBN: 9781107055797
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This vo... .... Learn More -
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack [Hardback]
Ian Tattersall (Author)
Regular Price: £18.99
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ISBN: 9781137278890
Published by : Palgrave
In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career - from young scientist in awe of hi... .... Learn More -
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos [Hardback]
Leonard Mlodinow (Author)
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ISBN: 9780307908230
Published by : Pantheon Books
Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which, he demonstrates, were propelled forward by humankind's collective struggle to know. From the birth of reasoning and culture to the formati... .... Learn More -
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution [Hardback]
Clive Finlayson (Author)
Regular Price: £16.99
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ISBN: 9780199658794
Published by : Oxford University Press
In this fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year evolutionary journey, Finlayson demonstrates the radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and technologies and shows that understanding humans within an ecological context pr... .... Learn More -
Linguistics and Evolution: A Developmental Approach [Paperback]
Julie Tetel Andresen (Author)
Regular Price: £28.99
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ISBN: 9781107650114
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Evolutionary linguistics - an approach to language study that takes into account our origins and development as a species - has rapidly developed in recent years. Informed by the latest findings in evolutionary theory, this book sets language with... .... Learn More -
Quaternary History and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Axe Valley at Broom, South West England [Hardback]
C. P. Green (Editor); Robert Hosfield (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781842175200
Published by : Oxbow Books
This investigation of the Lower Palaeolithic site at Broom, Devon, highlights the huge potential of old sites and the importance of the archaeological and geological legacy resulting from more than 150 years of field investigation... .... Learn More -
Human Social Evolution: The Foundational Works of Richard D. Alexander [Hardback]
Kyle Summers (Editor); Bernard J. Crespi (Editor)
Regular Price: £29.99
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ISBN: 9780199791750
Published by : Oxford University Press
Richard D. Alexander is an accomplished entomologist who turned his attention to solving some of the most perplexing problems associated with the evolution of human social systems. Using impeccable Darwinian logic and elaborating, extending and ad... .... 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 -
Pterosaurs [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
