Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

"This Very Short Introduction traces the history of our understanding of human evolution - taking the reader right up to the very latest fossil findings and the debates about what they mean." "Providing an 'insider's view' of current paleoanthropology, Bernard Wood explains how human fossils are found, analyzed, and interpreted, and what the latest advances in genetics and a range of other sciences can reveal about our earliest origins."--BOOK JACKET.

Bernard Wood is Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University and Adjunct Senior Scientist in the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution.

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of illustrations	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Finding our place	p. 7
Fossil hominins: their discovery and context	p. 24
Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation	p. 37
Early hominins: possible and probable	p. 58
Archaic and transitional hominins	p. 71
Pre-modern Homo	p. 84
Modern Homo	p. 100
Timeline of thought and science relevant to human origins and evolution	p. 116
Further reading	p. 121
Index	p. 125
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