How Humans Evolved

About this book

How Humans Evolved has long been the number one text for helping students understand the most exciting research in biological anthropology. In the ninth edition, new contributing author Kevin Langergraber makes the discipline's newest frontier – ancient and contemporary DNA research – accessible and relevant to students. Further new coverage of important recent fossil discoveries, modern human behaviour, and race ensure the text continues inspiring students to think critically about the key developments driving the field today.

Contents

PART ONE—HOW EVOLUTION WORKS
1. Adaptation by Natural Selection
2. Genetics
3. The Modern Synthesis
4. Speciation and Phylogeny

PART TWO—PRIMATE ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
5. Primate Diversity and Ecology
6. Primate Mating Systems
7. The Evolution of Cooperation
8. Primate Life Histories and the Evolution of Intelligence

PART THREE—THE HISTORY OF HUMAN LINEAGE
9. From Tree Shrew to Ape
10. The Earliest Hominins
11. Early Homo
12. The Neanderthals and their Contemporaries
13. Homo sapiens and the Evolution of Modern Human Behavior

PART FOUR—EVOLUTION AND MODERN HUMANS
14. Human Genetics and Variation
15. Evolution and Human Behavior
16. Culture, Cooperation, and Human Uniqueness

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