Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

By Bernard Wood

This reprint of Bernard Wood's best-selling 2-volumeencyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It isideal for grad students and individual researchers wanting topurchase their own desk copy of this comprehensive work.

This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensivecoverage of important scientific terms related to improving ourunderstanding of how we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entriescover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationshipsamong the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behaviorof modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionaryhistory of that distinctiveness, as well as information aboutmodern methods used to trace the recent evolutionary history ofmodern human populations. This text provides a resource foreveryone studying the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Visit the companion site www.woodhumanevolution.com to browseadditional references and updates from this comprehensiveencyclopedia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118650999
• ISBN13: 9781118650998
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 1056 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 9.4"