Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

▪ Abstract The transition from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic is considered
one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind. Explanations of the observable …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad …

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off
from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to …

Episodes of population growth and decline leave characteristic signatures in the distribution
of nucleotide (or restriction) site differences between pairs of individuals. These signatures …

What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at
long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone
Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic …