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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.

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