The Emergence of Humans: An Exploration of the Evolutionary Timeline

ISBN: 978-0-470-01315-1

Paperback

338 pages

May 2010

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Carefully structured around the evolutionary timeline: The structure enables students to appreciate the diversity and geographical distribution of primate species that lived during specific time periods from about 50 million years ago.
Provides objective coverage of contentious issues: Important themes such as bipedalism and the increasing size and complexity of the brain are set clearly within the time scale of evolution so that students can track the complex fossil, anatomical, artefactual, molecular and genetic evidence relevant to those themes.
Includes integrated self-assessment questions and a comprehensive glossary: In-text and end of chapter questions provide opportunities for developing and practicing key skills and cognitive skills. They also lead students into use of specific lines of evidence for supporting or refuting theories. The questions provide opportunities for students to practice identifying spurious reasoning or bias. Each chapter ends with recommended further reading, and references to significant review articles. A select bibliography of original research papers is included at the end of the book.
Clearly written and presented with numerous full colour illustrations: The illustrations, photographs and maps reinforce key concepts explored within the text.