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Reconstructing Human Origins, Second Edition

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I have just finished to read the book in a first reading. This second edition of the book is another masterpiece of the Prof. Conroy. The book is updated and it includes all the aspects of the human evolution, from the plio-pleistocene world to our modern origins. Notable the number of figures, schemes, diagrams and tables present in the book. The book is so updated that it includes the recent dwarf species Homo floresiensis.
Any sort of australopithecus and any sort of homo are included. This is a serious book for the one that really wants to learn the human evolution. I currently think it it is the best. If you purchase it you won't repent of it.
See my previous review of the first edition of this book.
A big thanks to Prof. Conroy.

If I had purchase this book 10 years sooner, I would have been completely satisfied.
As you can guess, I purchased it last year, and a lot of important new datas were not in the book... an new edition must be done.
The quality of the writing and the drawings is good (more than good actually) for a student starting in paleoanthropology. This book is probably one of the best written work made on the evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens and its "cousins" species.

I wait a long time (about 25 days) to get it home, so a entire mounth went by in the semester before I could start to read the informations I needed. The book itself was in great condition.