Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection of textbooks in the following ways:

• It incorporates the most recent fossil discoveries and interpretations.
• It balances the discussion between descriptions of fossils and interpretations of behavior of hominins in different time periods....