ISBN-13: 9780815316961 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 756 str.
This text aims to provide a complete context for understanding the 65-million-year story of humankinds origins. It gathers the work of 49 internationally recognized scholars, each a leading authority writing under the guidance of a distinguished team of editors from the American Museum of Natural History. They have prepared over 800 entries, ranging from brief definitions of technical terms to in-depth, lengthy essays on broad topics such as evolutionary theory, genetics, and Palaeolithic archaeology. It should be useful to scholars scholars and readers in a variety of fields, including archaeology, palaeontology, primateology, and genetics. Each entry offers an authoritative and objective explanation of its topic, written in concise language. In discussions of contested and controversial topics, the contributors present a full range of opinion, with extensive cross-references.