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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), The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins since its publication in 1989. This substantially revised edition retains Richard Klein's innovative approach and incorporates new findings from the past decade.

The Human Career chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. Its comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, Klein emphasizes that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the text, Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but also does not hesitate to take a position.

In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, The Human Career details the kinds of data that support this pattern, including information on archeological sites, artifacts, fossils, and methods for establishing dates in geological time. With abundant references and hundreds of illustrations, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.

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University of Chicago Press
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June 1, 1999
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English
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7.5 x 1.75 x 10.5 inches
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840 pages
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Richard G. Klein is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His books include Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine and, with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Subsequent edition (June 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 840 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226439631
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226439631
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.75 x 10.5 inches

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Nagano Snow

The World's Best University textbook

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2022

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This is the archaeologists Bible. Best read you'll ever have to understand human evolution.

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Al Sundel

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This is Klein's major work. Very comprehensive. He is a leading figure in paleoanthropology. But as new discoveries come in and new papers are published, revised editions of this book are necessary. For readers who have some idea of the subject only.

Klein and his school of thought are weakest on the period after c 40,000. They believe Neanderthals were exterminated. Accumulating evidence suggests that what he (and others) call "early moderns" in Europe all had manifest reduced Neanderthal traits. The Cro-Magnons have become an embarrassment to his otherwise erudite run through the evolutionary evidence. They were re-analysed as Neanderthaloid and redated as latecomers to Europe.

His writing on Neanderthals fails to fully credit them and the pre-Neanderthals, along with their diversity, for their many accomplishments, some of which continue down to modern times. This is essential reading for the serious student of paleoanthropology but not for the origin of modern Europeans.

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William Ballantyne

A Most in depth book

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One of the most in depth books you will find on the subject. Plan to spend some time reading this book

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covering not only hominid taxa but also primate evolution and important foundational topics like dating methods

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An incredibly thorough outline of human evolutionary history, covering not only hominid taxa but also primate evolution and important foundational topics like dating methods. The language is clear and easy to read.

However Klein does present as established fact some elements of the field that actually remain far from settled, so a keen student would be wise to seek out some additional reading to get a more holistic picture.

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Great book for paleoanthropologists

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The Human Career is a very in-depth analysis of the evolution of humans over the past 3 million years. If you're interested in the history of human kind, this is a very detailed and comprehensive guide. Coupled with the Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins and The History of Life, it gives an extremely comprehensive tour of the history of life on Earth.

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Wunderschoen

This book is all right, not as a reference

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This book is all right in terms of providing the background and up-to-date information. However, there are no in-text citations, just lists of citations at the end of each section, which is useless if you want to look a specific fact, comment, opinion, etc. Further, in my opinion, the organization of the book is fairly clunky, as the fossil record is divided into just a handful of very large, all-encompassing chapters, so that if you want information on a specific set of fossils you have to page through the whole chapter for the section on them.

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The Human Career. 3rd. edition

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What's the matter with Amazon? I click on 'Look inside the cover' of the 3rd. edition - and it brings up the 2nd. edition.
And we think Star Wars technology is going to protect us.
This is a major new publication in the field of biological anthropology. Come on Amazon, give us the contents of the latest edition, not a ten-year old edition. Pull your socks up, take your fingers out, get on the road, try to run a decent railway.

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I love it enough for what it is

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2018

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Well, I love it enough for what it is! I got it for my paleoanthropology course at my college, is really dense BUT a ton of useful information.

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Great Text

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 16, 2015

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Fascinating introduction to human evolution that is astoundingly comprehensive in its coverage.

It is as a consequence a rather long book.

Lots of helpful illustrations.

It is rather dry and a little technical and is presumably aimed at undergraduates.

Now a little outdated.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 13, 2015

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excellent depth of information

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 19, 2014

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Great item

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 1, 2013

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Dieses wirklich umfassende Werk über die menschliche Evolution ist sehr zu empfehlen, ich würde es mir jederzeit wieder kaufen!
Die 3. Edition wesentlich dicker als die Vorgängereditionen, weshalb es sich lohnt etwas mehr Geld in die Hand zu nehmen ( die Vorgängereditionen gibt es teilweise für den halben Preis das aktuellen Version) und sich die aktuelle Version zu kaufen!

Das Buch erarbeitet relativ minutiös die Evolution des Menschen, auch DNA Analysen und Vergleiche kommen dabei nicht zu kurz. Auch sind am Ende alle wichtigen Fundplätze aufgelistet, bzw. man kann direkt im STichwortverzeichnis suchen oder auch nach Fundplätzen, was sehr praktisch ist!
Es lässt sich sehr leicht lesen, wenn man sich bereits etwas in der Materie auskennt, als Einssteigswerk ist es aber eher ungeeignet ( Dafür eigenen sich eher Bücher wie "The complete world of human evolution" oder "Einführung die die Vorgeschichte")

Insgesamt ist dieses Buch ein treues Nachschlagewerk für das gesamte Urgeschichtsstudium in dem man so gut wie alles findet!

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