How Humans Evolved - Softcover

Boyd, Robert; Silk, Joan B.; Langergraber, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 132406174X ISBN 13: 9781324061748

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2024

Synopsis

The gold-standard introduction to biological anthropology

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, in primatologist Sarah Hrdy’s words, “the text of choice for teaching physical anthropology and human evolutionary biology.” New 3D models of select human and non-human primate crania and anatomy, as well as fossil crania of key hominins, invite students to explore specimens in a tactile way.

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About the Authors

Robert Boyd has written widely on evolutionary theory, focusing especially on the evolution of cooperation and the role of culture in human evolution. His book Culture and the Evolutionary Process received the J. I. Staley Prize, and he has also published numerous articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. Boyd is currently the Origins Professor in the School of Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

Joan B. Silk has conducted extensive research on the social lives of monkeys and apes, including extended fieldwork on chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania and on baboons in Kenya and Botswana. She is also interested in the application of evolutionary thinking to human behavior. She has published numerous articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. She is currently a professor in the School of Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

Kevin Langergraber has studied the behavioral and molecular ecology of the Ngogo group of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, since 2001. He has served as co-director of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project, a long-term field project devoted to the research and conservation of Ngogo chimpanzees, since 2011. He held positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and at Boston University before joining Arizona Statue University in 2014.

Edition details

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 132406174X
• ISBN 13: 9781324061748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512