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The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins

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"It is a long time since I have been as enthusiastic about a book on human evolution as I am about Richard Klein's The Human Career."—Leslie Aiello, Times Higher Education Supplement "[This book] will set a standard by which future books, setting out the course of human evolution, may measure their success."—Bobby Joe Williams, Quarterly Review of Biology "The best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published."—Penny Dransart, Antiquity

Author(s): Richard G, Klein
Edition: 1st
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1989

Language: English
Commentary: This is a lowfi scan, with underlines, highlighting and annotations, particularly abundant in the first two chapters. It has been added for historical and documentary reasons. See 2nd ed, LibGen md5=c4f9afefeaba9f860bd47af0583f1990 and search for subsequent editions.
Pages: xxii + 534

Illustrations vii
Preface xvii

1 The Geologic Time Frame 1
2 Primate Evolution: Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene 36
3 The Australopithecines and Homo habilis 100
4 Homo erectus 183
5 Early Homo sapiens 224
6 The Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries 263
7 Anatomically Modern Humans 344
8 Synopsis: A Partly Conjectural Outline of Human Evolution 399

Appendixes
1 Classification and Nomenclature 411
2 Flaked Stone Artifact Technology and Typology 418

References 428
Author Index 493
Site Index 501
Subject Index 509