The complete world of human evolution second edition the complete series 9780500288986. Traveling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, homo sapiens, from treedwelling primates to modern humans. Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species. Online shopping for human evolution from a great selection at books store. Provides an authoritative, scientific background for understanding the origins of humanity. The completely revised human evolution coloring book provides an authoritative, scientific background for understanding the origins of humanityincludes new discoveries and information essential for students of anthropology, primatology, paleontology, comparative. Its a simple question, but not so simple an answer to explain. The book starts out explaining about the tree of life, what fossils are, how they are found and how they are used as evidence. A human evolution summer reading list science smithsonian. Human evolution by bernard wood is just the facts and only the facts.
He should have had a head start, having written a similar article five years ago. The best books on evolution 1 on the origin of species by charles darwin. It may not be an indepth book for someone who wants to learn the finer points of evolution, nor does it have to be, but it is a ton of fun. These include descriptions of new discoveries, interpretative analyses.
The book is an up to date 201112 overview of the evolution of late primate especially miocene apes to modern human origins. At 1 pages this is all the updated information about human related fossils, up to the year 2005, and the debates about what they mean. This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you facetoface with your ancient ancestors. Human domination of the earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of the planet began. One of the books strongest assets is material on miocene apes.
Although concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, the book also covers the latest genetic evidence about regional variations in the modern human genome that relate to our evolutionary history. Processes and adaptations revised second edition 97816266676 and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books. The earliest apes evolved around twenty million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. The best books on evolution and human cooperation five. The human evolution coloring book, 2nd edition by coloring. A human evolution summer reading list as you plan for summer vacation, dont forget to pack one of these reads on neanderthals, human origins, new fossils or the first people in the new world. Man after man explores a hypothetical future path of human evolution set from 200 years in the future to 5 million years in the future, with several future human species evolving through. Homo sapiens may have been around as long as 400,000 years, migrating out of africa and having sex with neanderthals and denisovans much earlier than thought.
Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species. Human evolution read aloud books for children summary. It is as much about human nature as it is about chimpanzee behavior and cognition. Religion in human evolution is an immensely ambitious book on a topic only a scholar of robert bellahs stature could dare to tackle. It described the scientific evidence behind the origin of life and the manner in which chemistry. Harvards department of human evolutionary biology is built around a fundamental question. Last ape standing by chip walter last ape standing is a journey into human evolution. The completely revised human evolution coloring book provides an authoritative, scientific background for understanding the origins of humanity includes new discoveries and information essential for students of anthropology, primatology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, and genetics. Faculty and students study an immense diversity of topics. Basics in human evolution offers a broad view of evolutionary biology and medicine. An illustrated introduction have made this bestselling textbook the ideal complement to any biology. Sex and the evolution of human nature is a popular science book by matt ridley exploring the evolutionary psychology of sexual selection. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and their ancestors remains the subject of debate.
The naked ape wikipedia desmond morris african genesis wikipedia robert ardrey the territorial imperative wikipedia the stages of human evolution. Recovering the lost history of our ancestors by nicholas j. My new book is a lively tour through the many examples of poor design in the human form. The flaws discussed in this book are scars of battles won in the great struggle for survival. I spoke recently to a scientist who was writing up a summary of what we know about human evolution. Science writer, producer of awardwinning science documentaries and professor at carnegie mellon universitys school of computer science and entertainment technology center, chip walter provides readers an interesting story of how we came to be. Wood draws on over 30 years of experience to provide an insiders view of the field, and demonstrates that our understanding of human. The story of our evolution by michael bright with illustrations by hannah bailey is a very good book on human evolution.
Best childrens book on human evolution greg ladens blog. The legacy of the fossil evidence human evolution has many issues, including the realities of genetics, biochemistry, design theory, irreducible complexity, dna structure, and information systems. If youre looking for something more cerebral than the latest romance novel or courtroom thriller, consider one of the latest books covering human. Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on earth from nowextinct primates. This is a list of popular science books concerning evolution, sorted by surname of the author.
Speculations on the evolution of human intelligence. Hoffecker places humans in the broad context of the evolution of life. A pelican introduction pelican books english edition ebook. Yes, says richard wrangham of harvard university, who argues in a new book that the invention of cooking even more than agriculture, the eating of meat.
How 2017 rewrote the book on human evolution archaeology. Chapter questions how does evolutionary theory differ from origin myths. This book could also serve as a basic science text for a science class that also on human biology. However, the reality of the human fossil record alone is enough to reject the theory of human evolution all together. The exact nature of the evolutionary relationships between modern humans and their ancestors remains the. The other species in the group have already become extinct.
In chimpanzees and human evolution, muller, wrangham, and pilbeam have compiled comprehensive and wideranging accounts of the evolutionary continuum between chimpanzees and ourselves. A brief history of humankind by yuval noah harari, before the dawn. The book places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing the physical context of human evolution, including climate change and the impact of extinctions. Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began. All five books are about the way in which cooperation is natural to us and the way in which we can learn about its strengths and its weaknesses from features of its evolution. The completely revised human evolution coloring book. We are the unlikely survivors of this endless evolutionary conflict, the products of four billion years of. The central focus is aimed jointly at paleoanthropological work, covering human and primate fossils, and at comparative studies of living species, including both morphological and molecular evidence.
List of popular science books on evolution wikipedia. I know you had a hard time narrowing your list down to just five books on evolution. There are a lot of good books out there that go into a lot of detail about human evolution, but whats nice about this book is that it is reads crisply and its written in a. Homo naledi, a new fossil species discovered in a south african cave chamber, is another example of trying to make an ape more human like. An anthropology of the future is a 1990 speculative evolution book written by scottish geologist dougal dixon and illustrated by philip hood. The book covers basic introductory cell biology concepts such as metabolism, and cell division and then does a systembysystem discussion of the human body. Theres one big book missing that in a way underlies all of my choices and to which all of them, in their own way, pay homage. When i was first studying human evolution, most of what we could use were things like bones and artifacts, things that we dug out of the ground. In the intervening period, dozens of species of early ape and human have lived and died out, leaving behind the fossilized remains that have helped. Human evolution chapter outline modern homo sapiens culture. And when a childrens book touches on human evolution, it is usually just about neanderthals. My 4 and 8 year old children love looking at it with me and that is, in fact, one of the reasons i purchased it. The only extant members of the human tribe, hominini, belong to the species homo sapiens. The book is written for a nonexpert audience, providing accessible and convenient content that will appeal to numerous readers across the interdisciplinary field.
The brief length and focused coverage of human evolution. It attempts no less than to explain human biological as well as cultural evolution in one sweep, beginning with early hominids and ending with the axial age. List of popular science books on evolution jump to. The complete world of human evolution nhbs academic. Discoveries in 2017 are changing the story of humanity. David marsh and i wrote the driving force which professor clutterbuck of oxford commented was the best book on evolution since darwin. Includes new discoveries and information essential for students of anthropology, primatology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, and genetics. What are some of the best books on human evolution.