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Studies in African Comparative Linguistics

Studies in African Comparative Linguistics

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With Special Focus on Bantu and Mende
Key Info: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 b/w maps, 34 tables
Author: Bostoen,Koen, Maniacky,Jacky
Page Count: 495

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

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How Human Values Evolve
Key Info: 2 b/w photos, 26 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps
Author: Morris,Ian, Seaford,Richard, Spence,Jonathan D, Korsgaard,Christine M, Atwood,Margaret, Macedo,Stephen
Page Count: 369

The Ecology of the Barí

The Ecology of the Barí

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Rainforest Horticulturalists of Latin America
The first book-length study of the human ecology of the Barí, drawing on more than forty years of field research to examine relations with natural and social environments, reactions to depredations and warfare, and belief in the possibility that a child can have dual paternity
Key Info: 4 b/w photos, 9 b/w illustrations, 8 b/w maps
Author: Beckerman,Stephen, Lizarralde,Roberto

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution

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Key Info: 22 plates with colour photos and colour illustrations; b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables
Author: Boughner,Julia C, Rolian,Campbell, Wagner,Günter P
Page Count: 350
Publication Date: 2016-01-29

The Maya Forest Garden

The Maya Forest Garden

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Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands
Key Info: b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables
Author: Ford,Anabel, Nigh,Ronald
Page Count: 260

Exposer l'Humanité: Race, Ethnologie et Empire en France (1850-1950) [Exhibiting Humanity: Race, Ethnology and Empire in France (1850-1950)]

Exposer l'Humanité: Race, Ethnologie et Empire en France (1850-1950) [Exhibiting Humanity: Race, Ethnology and Empire in France (1850-1950)]

Exposer l'Humanité: Race, Ethnologie et Empire en France (1850-1950) [Exhibiting Humanity: Race, Ethnology and Empire in France (1850-1950)]

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Key Info: colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations
Author: Conklin,Alice L, Todorov,Tzvetan
Page Count: 541
Publication Date: 2015-10-12

Making Faces

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The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face
Key Info: 16 plates with 22 colour photos and colour illustrations; 56 b/w illustrations
Author: Wilkins,Adam S, Kennedy,Sarah
Page Count: 451

Quaternary of the Levant

Quaternary of the Levant

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Environments, Climate Change, and Humans
Key Info: 32 plates with 46 colour photos and colour illustrations;327 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, tables
Author: Enzel,Yehouda, Bar-Yosef,Ofer
Page Count: 771

Evolution's Bite

Evolution's Bite

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A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
A truly interdisciplinary look at what teeth tell us about human evolution, told with verve. Something to sink your teeth into.
Key Info: 25 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
Author: Ungar,Peter S

The Secret of Our Success

The Secret of Our Success

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How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Key Info: 21 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Author: Henrich,Joseph
Page Count: 445

The Social Origins of Language

The Social Origins of Language

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How human language evolved from the need for social communication
Key Info: 4 b/w illustrations
Author: Seyfarth,Robert M, Cheney,Dorothy L, Platt,Michael L
Page Count: 167

The Kingdom of Speech

The Kingdom of Speech

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Wolfe provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong
Author: Wolfe,Tom
Page Count: 160
Publication Date: 2017-08-31

Dental Morphology for Anthropology

Dental Morphology for Anthropology

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An Illustrated Manual
Key Info: 1158 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Author: Edgar,Heather JH, Daly,E Susanne, Scott,G Richard
Page Count: 184

The Rise of Homo sapiens

The Rise of Homo sapiens

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The Evolution of Modern Thinking
Key Info: 46 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
Author: Coolidge,Frederick L, Wynn,Thomas
Page Count: 331

Sapiens/Homo Deus (2-Volume Set)

Sapiens/Homo Deus (2-Volume Set)

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Key Info: colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, colour maps
Author: Harari,Yuval Noah
Page Count: 895
Publication Date: 2018-02-28

Against the Grain

Against the Grain

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A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain does exactly that and reexamines many cherished notions about the early history of the rise of states.
Key Info: 13 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
Author: Scott,James C

The Origins of Creativity

The Origins of Creativity

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The legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date
Key Info: b/w illustrations
Author: Wilson,Edward O
Page Count: 243

Who We Are and How We Got Here

Who We Are and How We Got Here

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Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Who We Are and How We Got Here is a supremely fascinating account of an archaeological revolution in the making: ancient DNA is rewriting most of what we thought we knew about human history.
Key Info: 27 b/w illustrations and b/w maps
Author: Reich,David

Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can

Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can

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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can is a very interesting and well-written book that revisits a remarkable 1970s behavioural experiment and surveys subsequent developments in linguistics, palaeoanthropology, and developmental psychology to offer a new understanding of how language evolved.
Key Info: 30 b/w photos and b/w illustrations
Author: Terrace,Herbert S
Page Count: 219

Edible Insects and Human Evolution

Edible Insects and Human Evolution

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Key Info: 22 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables
Author: Lesnik,Julie J
Page Count: 184
Publication Date: 2019-03-12

Ancient Wine

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The Search for the Origins of Viniculture
Key Info: 8 plates with 16 colour photos and colour illustrations; 35 b/w photos, 9 b/w illustrations, 7 b/w maps
Author: McGovern,Patrick E, Mondavi,Robert G
Page Count: 441

Spinal Evolution

Spinal Evolution

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Morphology, Function, and Pathology of the Spine in Hominoid Evolution
Key Info: 62 colour & 20 b/w photos and illustrations
Author: Been,Ella, Gómez-Olivencia,Asier, Kramer,Patricia Ann, Rak,Yoel
Page Count: 407

Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology

Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology

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The Strange and the Familiar
Key Info: 24 b/w illustrations, 23 tables
Author: Willermet,Cathy, Lee,Sang-Hee
Page Count: 219

The Ape that Understood the Universe

The Ape that Understood the Universe

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How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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Author: Stewart-Williams,Steve, Shermer,Michael
Page Count: 368

The Goodness Paradox

The Goodness Paradox

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How Evolution Made Us More and Less Violent
Thoughtful, bristling with interesting ideas, and sure to be controversial, The Goodness Paradox provides an evolutionary explanation for our docile yet violent nature.
Key Info: no illustrations
Author: Wrangham,Richard W

The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis

The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis

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An Integrative Approach
Key Info: 17 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 5 tables
Author: Wall-Scheffler,Cara M, Kurki,Helen K, Auerbach,Benjamin M
Page Count: 173

Ataï, un Chef Kanak au Musée: Histoires d'un Héritage Colonial [Ataï, a Kanak Chef at the Museum: Stories of a Colonial Legacy]

Ataï, un Chef Kanak au Musée: Histoires d'un Héritage Colonial [Ataï, a Kanak Chef at the Museum: Stories of a Colonial Legacy]

Ataï, un Chef Kanak au Musée: Histoires d'un Héritage Colonial [Ataï, a Kanak Chef at the Museum: Stories of a Colonial Legacy]

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Key Info: colour photos, colour illustrations
Author: Patin,Christelle, Bensa,Alban
Page Count: 543
Publication Date: 2019-10-23

The Animal's Companion

The Animal's Companion

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People and their Pets, a 26,000-Year-Old Love Story
Key Info: 32 plates with colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations; b/w photos
Author: Harvey,Jacky Colliss
Page Count: 326

Language, Culture, and the Embodied Mind

Language, Culture, and the Embodied Mind

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A Developmental Model of Linguaculture Learning
Key Info: 22 b/w illustrations
Author: Shaules,Joseph
Page Count: 228

Big Brains and the Human Superorganism

Big Brains and the Human Superorganism

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Why Special Brains Appear in Hominids and Other Social Animals
Key Info: 12 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 5 tables
Author: Caldararo,Niccolo Leo
Page Count: 269

Dinner with Darwin

Dinner with Darwin

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Food, Drink, and Evolution
Dinner with Darwin offers a smörgåsbord of topics, exploring human evolution through the lens of our food.
Key Info: 6 b/w maps
Author: Silvertown,Jonathan

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

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Genetics, Evolution, Variation
Key Info: 8 colour & 107 b/w illustrations, 47 tables
Author: Scott,G Richard, Irish,Joel D
Page Count: 559

Misadventures in Archaeology

Misadventures in Archaeology

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The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott
Author: Dillian,Carolyn D, Bello,Charles A
Page Count: 288
Publication Date: 2020-03-13