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How Humans Evolved has long been the leading text for helping students understand the science of human evolution. With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of human genetics, recent fossil discoveries, race, and modern human behavior, it is clear why the Tenth Edition remains,... Read Full Overview

How Humans Evolved teaches the processes that shape human evolution with a unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics, and behavioral ecology. The new edition continues to offer the most up-to-date research--in particular, significantly revised coverage of how recent... Read Full Overview

Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk's modern presentation of genetics and observable behaviors in living humans and non-human primates moves beyond merely describing anthropological finds to showing students the "big picture" ideas behind human evolution. For the Fifth Edition, Boyd... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

How Humans Evolved has long been the #1 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... Read Full Overview

How Humans Evolved teaches the processes that shape human evolution with a unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics, and behavioral ecology. The new edition continues to offer the most up-to-date research--in particular, significantly revised coverage of how recent... Read Full Overview

Aiming to set the standard at an introductory level, this text should appeal to professors who want their students to approach the study of human behaviour in a more scientific way. Emphasizing the cognitive approach, it covers all topics in the field, updated for this third... Read Full Overview

Using the broad perspective of behavioral ecology--how human behavior has been influenced by the evolutionary process--the authors offer a balanced discussion, drawing on updated coverage of the human fossil record. The well-structured pedagogical framework of the text, with... Read Full Overview

An introductory text describing how evolutionary theory, knowledge of primate behavioral ecology, and fossil and archaeological records are combined to produce the standard account of human evolution. Both anthropologists at the University of California in Los Angeles, Boyd has... Read Full Overview

Covering not only the history of the human species as revealed by the fossil record, this book shows students how evolution produces adaptations, creates new species and shapes behaviour. It is intended for introductory courses in human evolution, anthropology or evolutionary... Read Full Overview