From the Book - Second [American] edition, Revised edition /
Understanding our past / author, Professor Michael J. Benton ; consultants, Dr. Fiona Coward, Professor Paul O'Higgins. Back in time ; The geological record ; What are fossils? ; Finding our ancestors ; Archaeological science ; Piecing it together ; Bringing bones to life ; Reconstruction ; Interpreting behavior
Primates / author, Professor Colin Groves ; consultant, Professor Eric J. Sargis. Evolution ; Classification ; The first primates ; New World monkeys ; Early apes and Old World monkeys ; Modern apes ; Apes and humans
Hominins / author, Dr. Kate-Robson-Brown, with contributions by Fiona Coward ; consultant, Professor Katerina Harvati. Human evolution ; Family tree ; Sahelanthropus tchadensis ; Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus kadabba ; Ardipithecus ramidus ; Australopithecus anamensis ; Australopithecus bahrelghazali, Kenyanthropus platyops ; Australopithecus afarensis ; Australopithecus africanus ; Australopithecus garhi, Paranthropus aethiopicus ; Paranthropus robustus, Australopithecus sediba ; Paranthropus boisei ; Homo habilis ; Homo georgicus ; Homo ergaster ; Homo erectus ; Homo antecessor ; Homo heidelbergensis ; Homo floresiensis ; Homo neanderthalensis ; Homo naledi ; Homo sapiens ; Comparing heads
Out of Africa / author, Professor Alice Roberts ; consultant, Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer. Human migrations ; Genetics of past migrations ; First hominin migration ; Last of the ancients ; A new species appears ; East along the coast ; The colonization of Europe ; Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe ; North and East Asia ; The New World ; Oceania
From hunters to farmers / author, Dr. Jane McIntosh ; consultant, Dr. Peter Bogucki. After the ice ; Hunter-gatherers ; Rock art ; From foraging to food production ; Farmers in West and South Asia ; Göbekli Tepe ; Farmers in Africa ; Farmers in East Asia ; Farmers in Europe ; Farmers in the Americas ; Getting more from animals ; Craft development ; Metalworking ; Trade ; Religion ; Newgrange ; The first states ; Mesopotamia and the Indus ; Standard of Ur ; Dynastic Egypt ; Shang China ; American civilizations.
