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The Human Career
Richard G Klein
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Description for The Human Career
Hardcover. Chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the past 200,000 years. This book stresses advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread from there. Num Pages: 976 pages, 272 line drawings, 49 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 260 x 180 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1926.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
976
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
1934g
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226439655
SKU
V9780226439655
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About Richard G Klein
Richard G. Klein is the 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.
Reviews for The Human Career
"If you only have one book that deals with human evolution, this is definitely the one to choose." - Jean-Jacques Hublin, Nature "By far the best book of its kind." - Henry McHenry, Evolution"