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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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