How Humans Evolved - Softcover

Boyd, Robert; Silk, Joan B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393978540 ISBN 13: 9780393978544

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

Synopsis

How Humans Evolved remains the most up-to-date, forward-looking book in physical anthropology. Through a unique and balanced blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics, and behavioral ecology, the authors move beyond merely describing anthropological “finds” to showing students the big picture about how humans lived in the past and why they have evolved into the people they are today. The fully revised and updated Sixth Edition offers the best of current research, including important new coverage of Ardipithecus, the Neanderthal genome, early complex tool-making and symbolic behavior, and much more.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Boyd has written widely on evolutionary theory, focusing especially on the evolution of cooperation and role of culture in human evolution. His book, Culture and the Evolutionary Process, received the J. I. Staley Prize. He has also published numerous articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. He is currently co-director of the MacArthur Preferences Network and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Joan B. Silk has conducted extensive research on the social lives of monkeys and apes, including extensive fieldwork on chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania and baboons in Kenya and Botswana. She is also interested in the application of evolutionary thinking to human behavior, especially adoption and friendship. She has published over sixty papers in scientific journals and scholarly edited volumes, and is currently professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0393978540
• ISBN 13: 9780393978544
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 600