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by Richard Dawkins (Foreword), Stephen Jones (Editor), Robert D. Martin (Editor), David R. Pilbeam (Editor) "Human are fascinated by humanity ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 524 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (30 Jun 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521467861
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521467865
  • Product Dimensions: 26.9 x 21.8 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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‘… truly useful to a wide range of readers within anthropology, including graduate and undergraduate students as well as professors … There is no better source for finding brief, accurate, and current synopses of the issues, problems and methods of analysis within the domain of human evolutionary studies.’ American Journal of Physical Anthropology

‘ … one of the best reference books of all time.’ The Good Book Guide

‘What an encyclopedia this is! You can read it confident you are getting the authoritative, well-informed and up-to-date view of qualified experts.’ Richard Dawkins

‘ … a feast of information for anyone interested in the history of our species … If (whether student or professional) you’re interested in human evolution, you’ll want to have this volume handy.’ Ian Tattersall, Nature


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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution is a wide-ranging introduction to the human species that places modern humans in evolutionary perspective. Over seventy scholars world-wide have worked on the encyclopedia, covering a range of subjects from genetics, primatology and fossil origins to human biology and ecology, brain function and behaviour, demography and disease. Emphasis is placed throughout on the biological diversity of modern people and the increasing convergence of the fossil and genetic evidence for human evolution that has emerged. Due to the need to look at humankind in the context of our closest relatives, the encyclopedia also pays particular attention to the evolution and ecology of other living primates - lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes. It deals with the evolution and ecology of human society, as reconstructed from archaeological remains, and from studies of tribal peoples and living primates today. It considers the biology of uniquely human abilities such as language and upright walking, and it reviews the biological future of humankind in the face of modern challenges.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for the interdisiplinary academic, 12 Mar 2001
I have read many books on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and evolutionary theory. This book seems to me like a summary of them all. After reading the encyclopedia from cover to cover, I feel many of the empirical and theoretical gaps in my understanding of evolutionary psychology have been filled. This is because of the breadth of subjects covered. It must be considered a must have for students of interdisiplinary subjects such as myself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars all you need to know, 7 April 1999
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This book is simply superb - all you need as an initial jumping off point in the world of anthropology and palaeoanthropology. How the editiors got this much quality information in one place for less than £......is amazing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Some interesting ideas, much padding, 5 Feb 2007
By A. M. Munford "Mike Munford" (Welshpool, Powys United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Anyone who is interested in understanding human origins is likely to be attracted to this book. It actually consists of a very comprehensive collection of articles by specialists - specialists on everything from "The structure of DNA" to "Tribal peoples in the modern world." Hidden away among all this specialised knowledge are some interesting conclusions, but they take a lot of searching for. There is one on page 358 - a three-quarter page box headed "Throwing". Barbara Isaac suggests that our ancestors, lacking sharp canine teeth or claws, made up for it, once their hand were freed from walking duties, by becoming good at throwing stones. There is another exciting idea on page 88. In another three-quarter page box, M H Day suggests that bipedalism involved a smaller pelvic girdle, which made it more difficult to give birth to a big-brained baby.

There are some more exciting ideas, but the great bulk of the text, whilst good background material for the specialised anthropologist, doesn't tell us anything very interesting. Some of it is downright irrelevant, merely filling up space. Why did we need an article on the New World Monkeys? They are nothing to do with our ancestry. And why must the book start off by trotting out the old chestnut about life starting off 3000 million years ago as "short stretches of nucleic acid floating in a chemical sea". Those who still believe that, do so on faith alone - it's science fiction. The truth is that no one knows how life began, if indeed it ever did begin.

What the book lacks, above all, is an intelligent overview, someone who can draw the strands together and tell us what it all means - the kind of overview that is attempted on the site evolution-of-man.info. Perhaps we should not expect this kind of overview. Certainly we don't get it.
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