The Human Career
Subtitle: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
By: Richard G. Klein.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780226439624
Subjects: Human beings -- Origin; Fossil hominids; Human evolution
Description: "It is a long time since I have been as enthusiastic about a
book on human evolution as I am about Richard Klein's The Human
Career."—Leslie Aiello, Times Higher Education Supplement

"[This book] will set a standard by which future books,
setting out the course of human evolution, may measure their
success."—Bobby Joe Williams, Quarterly Review of Biology

"The best introduction to the problems and data of modern
palaeoanthropology yet published."—Penny Dransart, Antiquity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-492).
Table of contents: title: Illustrations
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: xvii; label: 1
title: The Geologic Time Frame
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Primate Evolution: Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: The Australopithecines and Homo habilis
pagenum: 100; label: 4
title: Homo erectus
pagenum: 183; label: 5
title: Early Homo sapiens
pagenum: 224; label: 6
title: The Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries
pagenum: 263; label: 7
title: Anatomically Modern Humans
pagenum: 344; label: 8
title: Synopsis: A Partly Conjectural Outline of Human Evolution
pagenum: 399; title: Appendixes; label: 1
title: Classification and Nomenclature
pagenum: 411; label: 2
title: Flaked Stone Artifact Technology and Typology
pagenum: 418; title: References
pagenum: 428; title: Author Index
pagenum: 493; title: Site Index
pagenum: 501; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 509