Paleoanthropology - The study of human evolution
Contents

1. Introduction

2. General Evolutionary Theory

3. Primatology and The Great Apes

4. The Ape-Human Split

5. From Hominid to Hominin

6. The Homo genus

7. Modern Homo sapiens

Introduction
This series of pages has been put together to illustrate the breadth of the subject of paleoanthropology. It aims to introduce the structure of the subject, more than the subject itself, which is too vast for this modest attempt to encapsulate it.
It is hoped that anyone interested in human evolution will find them useful, however, as an initial guide to getting into the most fascinating subject possible: the science of what we are and where we came from.
These pages are based upon an amalgam (or perhaps I should say 'hybrid') of the contents of a number of good undergraduate level texts on human evolution. (See right, light-blue shaded column for sources)

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 References

Aiello, Leslie C; Dean, Christopher (1990). An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy. Academic Press (London)

Boyd, Robert ; Silk, Joan B (2000). How Humans Evolved. Norton (New York)

Conroy, Glenn C (1997). Reconstructing Human Origins. Norton (New York)

Feder, Kenneth L (1995). The Past in Perspective. Mayfield (Mountain View)

Jones, Steve; Martin, Robert D; Pilbeam, David; Bunney, Sarah (eds.), (1992).
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)

Klein, Richard G (1999). The Human Career (Human Biological and Cultural Origins). University of Chicago (London)

Lewin, Roger (1998). Principles of Human Evolution: A Core Textbook. Blackwell Science (Massechusetts)

Relethford, John H (2002). The Human Species. McGraw-Hill (Boston)

Wolpoff, Milford H (1999). Paleoanthropology. McGraw-Hill (Boston)