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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
"Peking Man," a cave man
once thought a great hunter
who had first tamed fire,
actually was a composite of
the gnawed remains of some
fifty women, children, and
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The Complete World of Human Evolution
A compelling, authoritative,
and superbly illustrated
account of the rise and
eventual domination of our
species. Human domination
of the earth is now so
complete that it is easy to
... > full story
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
This book tells the story of
human evolution, the epic of
Homo sapiens and its
colorful precursors and
relatives. The story begins
... > full story
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells traces human
evolution back to our very
first ancestor in The
Journey of Man. Along the
way, he sums up the
explosive effect of new
techniques in genetics on
... > full story
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
Traveling to the desolate rock-strewn deserts of northen Kenya, where the temperature can hit a brutal and dry 130 degrees, would be enough of a trip, but scientist Alan Walker also takes us on a ... > read more -
From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking ... > read more -
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm ... > read more -
The Dawn of Human Culture
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human ... > read more -
Human Molecular Genetics, Third Edition
Following the completion of the Human Genome Project the content and organization of the third edition of Human Molecular Genetics has been thoroughly revised.* Part One (Chapters 1-7) covers basic ... > read more -
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the ... > read more -
Human Genetics
Human Genetics, Seventh Edition, is a non-science majors human genetics text that clearly explains what genes are, how they function, how they interact with the environment, and how our understanding ... > read more -
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the ... > read more -
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Described as "by far the best book of its kind" (Henry McHenry, Evolution) and "the best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published" (R. A. Foley, Antiquity), ... > read more -
The Seven Daughters of Eve
The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven ... > read more
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