Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record

The American Anthropological Association's complete biological anthropology textbook, second edition: genetics, primates, fossils, human variation, bioarchaeology and forensics. Richly illustrated with photos, diagrams and maps.

Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera and Lara Braff (eds.)

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

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.)