Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

This reprint of Bernard Wood's best-selling 2-volume encyclopedia is now available as a single-volume paperback. It is ideal for grad students and individual researchers wanting to purchase their own desk copy of this comprehensive work. This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entries cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness, as well as information about modern methods used to trace the recent evolutionary history of modern human populations. This text provides a resource for everyone studying the emergence of Homo sapiens. Visit the companion site http://www.woodhumanevolution.com to browse additional references and updates from this comprehensive encyclopedia.

Contributors vii Editor Executive Editor Assistant Executive Editor Senior Editorial Assistant Editorial Assistant Associate Editors Advisory Editors Section and Topic Editors Contributors Foreword by Francisco J. Ayala xi Preface xviii Acknowledgments xxi Topic Entry List xxiii List of Abbreviations lxxvii A–Z 1 References i