From tools to symbols
Subtitle: from early hominids to modern humans
By: edited by Francesco d'Errico and Lucinda Backwell
Contributors: D'Errico, Francesco.; Backwell, Lucinda
Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Tobias, Phillip V.; Hominids -- South Africa.; Paleoclimatology -- South Africa.
Description: "[Book title] represents an excellent synthesis of recent research on the origins of humankind, the evolution of the human brain and the emergence of modern human cultures from a number of disciplines such as palaeoanthropology, genetics, primatology, and archaeology"--Back cover.
Notes: "In honour of Professor Phillip V. Tobias".

This book is the outcome of a conference, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, 16-18 March 2003.--Preliminaries.