
The Human Career
Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Richard G. Klein(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 1. June 1999
Book
Hardback
836 pages
978-0-226-43963-1 (ISBN)
Description
Chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. The work stresses late-1990s advances in knowledge, including 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 archaeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, Richard Klein emphasizes that human morphology and behaviour evolved together. Throughout the text, Klein also presents evidence for alternative points of view. In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, the text details the kinds of data that support this pattern, including information on archaeological sites, artefacts, fossils and methods for establishing dates in geological time.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
223 line drawings, 16 tables, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 186 mm
Weight
1574 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-43963-1 (9780226439631)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition 1. Evolution, Classification, and Nomenclature 2. The Geologic Time Frame 3. Primate Evolution: Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene 4. The Australopithecines and Homo habilis 5. Evolution of the Genus Homo 6. The Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries 7. Anatomically Modern Humans 8. Conclusion: Anatomy, Behavior, and Modern Human Origins References Reference Index Site Index Subject Index