Human evolution : trails from the past /
Cela Conde, Camilo José.
Ayala, Francisco José,1934-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-417) and index.
Preface : Homo sapiens, the rational animal -- Evolution, genetics, and systematics -- The evolution of hominoids -- The hominin lineage -- Miocene and Pliocene genera and species -- Pliocene hominins : South Africa and the Rift Valley -- The Pliocene cladogenesis : paranthropus versus homo -- The radiation of homo -- Evolutionary characteristics of the erectus grade -- The late-Pleistocene transition -- The uniqueness of being human.
Fossil hominids.
Paleoanthropology.
Human evolution.