Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology

A species-by-species tour of human evolution, from Sahelanthropus and the australopiths to Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens. Includes illustrations of the key fossils and where they were found.

Barbara Helm Welker

How did diet shape the evolution of our large brains? Leading researchers combine primate studies, hunter-gatherer foraging, bone chemistry and Neanderthal archaeology to answer that question.

Wil Roebroeks (ed.)

Essays by leading scientists on what genes, primate behavior, climate and culture reveal about how humans became human, from chimpanzee language studies to the genetics of our ancestors.

Morris Goodman and Anne Simon Moffat (eds.)