Publisher's Synopsis
A balanced and readable account of human evolution, covering an impressively wide range of material. The new edition provides a comprehensive up-to-date account of this rapidly changing field. The prose is crisp, the morphological features of interest are described succinctly, the analyses are capably summarized and the author's opinions are advanced unobtrusively.;This book should be of interest to anthropologists and evolutionary biologists at advanced undergraduate and immediate post-graduate levels.
