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Anthropology | For younger readers | Human Evolution | Human Race

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Anthropology

Barfield, Thomas, ed. The Dictionary of Anthropology. Blackwell, 1997. Short entries on topics in anthropology, including biographies; for students.

Burenhult, Göran, ed. Traditional Peoples Today: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

Carlisle, Richard, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mankind. Cavendish, 1984, 1989. A compendium of articles on the world's cultures, groups, and religions.

Diamond, Jared. The Third Chimpanzee. HarperPerennial, 1993. A sweeping study of the biological and social development of human beings; for general readers.

Harris, Marvin. Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology. Longman, 1997. A classic introductory textbook.

Kottak, Conrad. Anthropology. McGraw-Hill, 1999. A comprehensive introductory textbook.

Kuper, Adam. The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity. Harvard University Press, 1994. A history of the field of anthropology and its major issues, including human origins, diversity, culture, and human nature.

For younger readers

Cole, Joanna. The Human Body: How We Evolved. Morrow, 1987. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Facchini, Fiorenzo. Humans: Origins and Evolution. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995. For readers in grades 4 to 8.

Weitzman, David. Great Lives: Human Culture. Scribner, 1994. Profiles of 27 anthropologists and archaeologists; for readers in grades 4 to 6.

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Human Evolution

Berger, Lee R. In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins. Simon & Schuster, 2000. Supports the view that humans originated in the southern portion of the African continent.

Delson, Eric, and others, eds. Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory. Garland, 1998. Reference source for professionals and informed laypersons.

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection. Pantheon, 1999. Engrossing, highly readable exploration of human motivations and behaviors.

Johanson, Donald, and Blake Edgar. Photog. David Brill. From Lucy to Language. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Traces human evolution through fossil hominids and their cultural artifacts, with photographs by the chief photographer of the National Geographic Society.

Leakey, Richard. The Origin of Humankind. Basic Books, 1994, 1996. One of the world's foremost paleoanthropologists tells the story of the first humans and explains how and why modern humans developed social organization.

Lewin, Roger. Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. 4th ed. Blackwell, 1999. Well-illustrated, easy-to-read introduction to the development of the human race.

McKie, Robin. Dawn of Man: The Story of Human Evolution. DK Publishing, 2000. Companion volume to a BBC television series on evolution.

Stringer, Christopher, and Robin McKie. African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. Holt, 1997, 1998. Argues for African, rather than multiregional, origins for humankind.

Tattersall, Ian. Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. Harcourt Brace, 1998, 1999. Engaging account of human evolution from a curator at the American Museum of Natural History.

Tattersall, Ian. The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1995, 1996. Natural history of the human species as revealed through the fossil record.

Wolpoff, Milford, and Rachel Caspari. Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Presents two competing models of human evolution, including explanations of fossil and molecular DNA evidence.

Human Race

Barash, David P., and Ilona A. Barash. Mammal in the Mirror: Understanding Our Place in the Natural World. W.H. Freeman, 2000. An informative and entertaining guide to human biology and behavior.

Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan D. Spence, eds. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge, 1996. An A-to-Z reference to the human race in all its diversity.

Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca, and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza. The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. Trans. Sarah Thorne. Addison-Wesley, Reprint, Perseus, 1995. 1996.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Norton, 1999. Award-winning study of humans and the shaping of the modern world.

Marks, Jonathan. Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History. Aldine de Gruyter, 1995. Synthesizes what has been learned and what remains to be learned about the biological differences within and among human groups, emphasizing genetic evidence.

Molnar, Stephen. Human Variation: Races, Types and Ethnic Groups. Prentice Hall, 1998. Reviews the literature on human diversity.

Montagu, Ashley. Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. AltaMira, 1997. Discredits the idea of superiority of one race over any other.

Sykes, Bryan. Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry. Norton, 2001. A study that uncovered the maternal prehistoric ancestors of 95 percent of all modern Europeans.

Wolpoff, Milford, and Rachel Caspari. Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Presents the two competing models of human evolution, the so-called Eve theory and the multiregional hypothesis; includes explanations of fossil and molecular DNA evidence.

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