| View Larger Image | The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition | Hardcoverby Richard G. Klein (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | University Of Chicago Press | | Edition: | 3rd Edition | | Page Count: | 1,024 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 01, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 64,011th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Since its publication in 1989, The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution.Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record and the archaeological record over the 2.5 million years for which both are available, The Human Career demonstrates that human morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the book, Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but does not hesitate to make his own position clear.In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution, The Human Career details the kinds of data that support it. For the third edition, Klein has added numerous tables and a fresh citation system designed to enhance readability, especially for students. He has also included more than fifty new illustrations to help lay readers grasp the fossils, artifacts, and other discoveries on which specialists rely. With abundant references and hundreds of images, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 5 reviews)
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The Human Career. 3rd. edition by Sandy Harcourt  5 Stars
September 10, 2009
What's the matter with Amazon? I click on 'Look inside the cover' of the 3rd. edition - and it brings up the 2nd. edition.
And we think Star Wars technology is going to protect us.
This is a major new publication in the field of biological anthropology. Come on Amazon, give us the contents of the latest edition, not a ten-year old edition. Pull your socks up, take your fingers out, get on the road, try to run a decent railway.
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Before History Began by William Bezdek (Clarkston, MI USA) 5 Stars
March 30, 2009
For the six million years before early humans evolved in a different direction from their chimpanzee cousins, there were no writings to consult about our (assuming the readers are human) evolution. This fine book fills this tremendous gap about our ancestors by examining the evidence from skeletal remains that reveal the development of human brain size, eating habits, and getting about on two legs. Klein evaluates this evidence fairly from the viewpoint of different scholars who attempt to relate this evidence to the development of human culture. The massive list of references at the back of the book cites over 2,400 books and journal articles, accompanied by a index of the pages where each reference is used in the text. If you want to know about human ancestors, and you are not too overwhelmed by details clearly and fairly presented, you'll love to wander through this book.
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It helps to have some knowledge by Greg Maffei (San Francisco, CA USA) 5 Stars
November 26, 2002
about geology, anthropology and paleantology. This book gives minutely detailed information about everything from history to bones. It should really be used as a reference. There is probably no better book on the subject, it was recommended to me by an anthropologist
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Excellent and thorough 5 Stars
October 11, 2000
By far the most complete and up-to-date treatment of hominid evolution I have encountered. Covers every aspect of paleoanthropology, including climatic changes and dating techniques, in great detail and precision, but with language that even a non-scientist such as myself can understand. An outstanding reference book.
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A great overview  4 Stars
June 06, 2000
One of the definitive texts on the evolution of the hominidae. This text presents some very complex material in a very straightforward way with plenty of diagrams, charts, and maps. Many of the controversies found in the field of paleoanthropology are glossed over or skipped altogether, but this volume is still one of the best for an introduction to human evolution both biologically and culturally. A must for anthropology students especially with all the new discoveries in the past few years.
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