Biology

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, co-edited by Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio

The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies

Edited by Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio and Lynn Turner

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on animal studies. What new questions and…

Singing and Wellbeing book cover

Singing and Wellbeing

Subtitle
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof

Kay Norton

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely untapped…

How Humans Evolved, Eighth Edition

How Humans Evolved

Subtitle
Eighth Edition

Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk

"How Humans Evolved" teaches the processes that shape human evolution with a unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics and behavioral ecology. The new edition continues to…

Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

Lucy’s Legacy

Subtitle
The Quest for Human Origins

Kate Wong and Donald C. Johanson

In his New York Times bestseller, "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind," renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson told the incredible story of his discovery of a partial female fossil…

Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind

Lucy

Subtitle
The Beginnings of Humankind

Maitland Edey and Donald C. Johanson

In his New York Times bestseller, "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind," renowned paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson tells the incredible story of his discovery of a partial female…

From Lucy to Language

From Lucy to Language

Donald C. Johanson and Blake Edgar

Photography by   David Brill

In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy," the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any…

The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis

The Skull of Australopithecus Afarensis

Yoel Rak, William H. Kimbel and Donald C. Johanson

The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.6–3.0 million-year-old early human species Australopithecus afarensis. Knowledge…

Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Not by Genes Alone

Subtitle
How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to…

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson

In one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential, but until now relatively inaccessible, articles are presented that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path…

Primate Communities

Primate Communities

Edited by Kaye E. Reed, John G. Fleagle and Charles Janson

Although the behavior and ecology of primates have been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of…