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The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
by Klein, Richard G.Edition:
3rd
ISBN13:
9780226439655
ISBN10:
0226439658
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Hardcover
Pub. Date:
6/1/2009
Publisher(s):
Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary
Since its publication in 1989,The Human Careerhas 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 Careerdemonstrates 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 Careerdetails 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.
Author Biography
Richard G. Klein is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His books include Ice-Age Hunters of the Ukraine and (with Kathryn Cruz-Uribe) The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
