Since its publication in 1989, "The Human Career" has proved to
be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This
substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein's
innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and
analyses over the past ten years have significantly refined our
knowledge of human evolution.
Klein chronicles the evolution of people from the earliest
primates through the emergence of fully modern humans within the
past 200,000 years. His comprehensive treatment stresses recent
advances in knowledge, including, for example, ever more abundant
evidence that fully modern humans originated in Africa and spread
from there, replacing the Neanderthals in Europe and equally
archaic people in Asia. With its coverage of both the fossil record
and the archaeological record over the 2.5 million years for which
both are available, "The Human Career" demonstrates that human
morphology and behavior evolved together. Throughout the book,
Klein presents evidence for alternative points of view, but does
not hesitate to make his own position clear.
In addition to outlining the broad pattern of human evolution,
"The Human Career" details the kinds of data that support it. For
the third edition, Klein has added numerous tables and a fresh
citation system designed to enhance readability, especially for
students. He has also included more than fifty new illustrations to
help lay readers grasp the fossils, artifacts, and other
discoveries on which specialists rely. With abundant references and
hundreds of images, charts, and diagrams, this new edition is
unparalleled in its usefulness for teaching human evolution.
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