Customer Reviews

Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a collection of 6 articles from various anthropologists such as Lovejoy, Walker, Stringer, and Conkey. The book does a great job covering the major transitions in human evolution from Lovejoy's article on primates, sex, and Australopithecines to Walker's article on the origins of the Genus Homo and Homo erectus, an article on stone age technologies, Stringer's article on the origins of H. sapiens, Conkey's article on paleolithic art, and the final article on culture and its evolution.

This is a great book for someone who already has introductary background knowledge and presents some new theories and thinking in human evolution.

Each chapter is concluded with a list of references and a list of suggested readings. The end of the book contains a pretty extensive glossary. The inside covers also contain useful information (time line and family tree on the front and pictures of a human and chimp skeleton with labels on the back).

I originally checked this book out at the library for some research I was doing on the Nariokotome skeleton, but enjoyed it so much that I went ahead and purchased my copy.