Tattersall, Ian

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First edition Pp. xii, 244; numerous line-drawings and stipple-drawings. Publisher’s original white cloth, letter in gold, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 9635

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Thompson, Jennifer L.; Krovitz, Gail E. and Nelson, Andrew J. (editors)

Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First edition. Pp. xiv, 455; numerous black-and-white photos and line-drawings. Pictorial blue laminated boards (hardback), lettered in black on the front cover and in white on the spine, lg 8vo. This book focuses on species within the genus Homo to investigate the evolutionary origins of characteristic human patterns and rates of craniofacial and postcranial growth and development, and to explore unique ontogenetic patterns with each fossil species (from the rear cover blurb). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine copy..

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Book number: 9583

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Thong, Pham Huy (editor)

Archaeological Data (Vietnamese Studies no. 46)

Hanoi: Vietnamese Studies, 1976. First edition. Pp. 208; 24 plates (line-drawings and black-and-white photos). Green and white pictorial wrappers, sm 8vo. From the series: Vietnamese Studies no. 46. This early work on the archaeology of northern Vietnam documents discoveries made during 1950s to 1970s. The text is in English. Small signature of former owner on the title page. The text is lightly age-toned, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9557

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Thong, Pham Huy (editor)

New Researches Into Prehistory of Viet Nam: 20 Years of Joint Research Between the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the German Democratic Republic

Berlin/Hanoi: Archaeological Institute of the Social Sciences/Central Institute for Ancient History, 1988. First edition. Pp. 98; numerous text-figures (line-drawings), folding chart of radiometric dates in laid in at rear. Cream-color wrappers, lettered in black, backed in blue cloth, 8vo. This volume documents 20 years of joint research into the archaeology of Vietnam between East Germany northern Vietnam. There is special emphasis on Carbon 14 dating of numerous sites across Vietnam. Some of this joint research took place during the Vietnam War in the 1970s. The text is in English. Signature of former owner on title page. The text is lightly age-toned due to the use poor quality paper, a tight copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 9556

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Tobias, Phillip V. et al. (editors)

Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia: Colloquia in Human Biology and Paleoanthropology

Florence: Firenze University Press, 2001. First edition. Pp. 409; numerous text-figures (black-and-white photos and line-drawings). Dark blue color pictorial wrappers, lettered in yellow on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Presents the proceedings of the “Dual Congress” that was held in Sun City, South Africa, from June 28th to July 4th, 1998. This Dual Congress is an integration of two international scientific associations: the International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology – IV Congress, and the International Association of Human Biologists. Eighteen Colloquia were arranged, comprising invited speakers on human evolutionary aspects and on the living populations. This volume includes 39 referred papers from these 18 Colloquia. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A bright copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 9555

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Tobias, Phillip V. and Coppens Yves (editors)

IXe Congres, Colloque VI: Les Plus Anciens Hominides

Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1976. First edition. Pp. 464; some text-figures and photos. Early green cloth, lettered in gilt, lg 8vo. Union Internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques, IXe congrès: Les Plus anciens Hominidés, Colloque VI. This symposium was held in Nice, France in September 1976. There are 36 chapters in this work on what was then thought to be the earliest records of the Hominidae. At the time, this included ""Ramapithecus"" and other Neogene hominoids. There are numerous other papers on Australopithecus, Homo erectus and others. This work was actually a pre-print of the papers to be given at the symposium. No later accounts of the symposium were ever published. The original orange wrappers issued with this work French. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. Light foxing to the title page and to the contents page; a clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 8280

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Trinkaus, Erik and Svoboda, Jiri (editors)

Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe: The People of Dolni Vestonice and Pavlov

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Pp. ix, 489; ~400+ text-figures (black-and-white photos, graphs, charts, line-drawings). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4to. Dolni Vestonice is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site near the village of Dolní V?stonice, Moravia in the Czech Republic, on the base of D?vín Mountain, dating to approximately 26,000 years before present by radiocarbon dating. The site is unique in that it has been a particularly abundant source of prehistoric artifacts (especially art) dating from the Gravettian period, which spanned roughly 27,000 to 20,000 B.C. In addition to the abundance of art, this site also includes carved representations of men, women, and animals, along with personal ornaments, human burials and enigmatic engravings (modified after Wiki). A burial at Dolni Vestonice produced three skeletons of Homo sapiens. This monograph describes and compares these three skeletons with other early modern Homo sapiens. This is Dolni Vestonice Studies, volume 12. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 8263

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Trinkaus, Erik (editor)

The Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in the Later Pleistocene (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First edition. Pp. xv, 285; some text-figures (black-and-white photos and maps). Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, orange and brown pictorial dust jacket, 8vo. This volume collects a group of essays identifying the current issues regarding the origins and emergence of a ""modern"" human biological and behavioral pattern from the earlier pattern inferred for late archaic humans. These essays identify changing behavioral complexes in human life during the period between 120,000 and 12,000 years ago. This work also deals with the evolutionary place of neandertals in the origin of modern humans. There are contributions by Ofer Bar-Yosef, Lewis Binford, Eric Trinkaus, Fred Smith, Chris Stringer and Milford Wolpoff among others. Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper. From the series: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. No signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 8204

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Trinkaus, Erik, Constantin, Silviu and Zilhao, Joao

Life and Death at the Pestera cu Oase: A Setting for Modern Human Emergence in Europe

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. First edition. Pp. xii, 435; ~325+ text-figures (color photos, color drawings, black-and-white photos, graphs, charts, line-drawings). Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 4to. Pe?tera cu Oase meaning ""The Cave with Bones,"" is a system of 12 karstic galleries and chambers located near the city Anina, in the Cara?-Severin county, southwestern Romania, where some of the oldest European early modern human remains, between 37,000 and 42,000 years old, have been found (modified after Wiki). In addition, this site complex has yielded an abundance of cave bears and other Late Pleistocene mammals in southeastern Europe. This monograph presents the cave systems and their dating and the vertebrate fauna. In addition, it describes and compares the human findings with other early modern Homo sapiens from Europe and elsewhere. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 8264

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Trinkaus, Erik

The Shanidar Neanderthals

New York: Academic Press, 1983. First edition. Pp. xxiv, (1), 502; 82 text-figures (black-and-white photos, maps, stratigraphic sections), 100 tables. Publisher's original gray cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, pictorial brown dust jacket, lettered in white on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. This is a detailed examination of the human paleontological data provided by the fossils from the Mousterian levels of Shanidar Cave in Iraq. The Shanidar Neandertals, which consist of partial skeletons of seven adults and two infants, constitute the largest sample of Neandertal skeletons from a single site. The author thoroughly analyzes all aspects of Neandertal morphology and offers behavioral interpretations of Neandertal anatomy (from the jacket flap). Small signature of former owner in the top corner of the first endpaper, no signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 8284

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Tuttle, Russell H.

Apes and Human Evolution

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. First edition. Pp. xiv, 1056; 16 color plates with numerous separate color photos, numerous text-figures and photos in the text. Publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in copper on the spine, pictorial white dust jacket lettered in black and red, thick lg 8vo. In this masterful work, the author synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to on another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings (from the jacket flap). No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy in a fine dust jacket..

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Book number: 9543

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Washburn, Sherwood L. (editor)

Classification and Human Evolution

Aldine Publishing, Chicago, 1969. Third printing. Pp. viii, 171; some text-figures and black-and-white photos. Publisher's original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. This is the hardcover third printing. It is Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology no. 37. This work is based on a Burg Wartenstein symposium held in Austria sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in the summer of 1962. Eighteen specialists in human evolution, genetics, primate paleontology and behavior, and evolutionary biology participated in this one-week symposium. The papers in this volume resulted from that symposium. Washburn was the driving force behind the selection of the symposium participants. No ownership marks. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8456

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Washburn, S. L. and McCown, Elizabeth R. (editors)

Human Evolution: Biosocial Perspectives (Perspectives on Human Evolution, volume IV: Hardcover first edition)

Menlo Park, CA: The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co, 1978. First edition. Pp. (x), 316; black-and-white photos, anatomical diagrams, graphs, family trees. Publisher's original patterned green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. This is the hardcover first edition. This is Perspectives on Human Evolution, volume IV. This series, developed by S. L. Washburn, is a publication of the Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Berkeley, California. The series was created to bring together the variety of evidence which helps us understand the process that has created mankind. It presents topical articles on human evolution concerning the fossil record, stone tools and biosocial problems such as development of language - all of these are seen from the ""Berkeley Perspective"" as espoused by Washburn. Many of Washburn's students and close colleagues were asked to publish in this series. Volume IV, the last volume in this series, focuses on the following topics: natural selection, the brain, sexual behaviors and the social system. This volume also includes papers on the Piltdown fabrication and on tool-making by orangutans. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Book number: 8209

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Washburn, Sherwood L., Jay, Phyllis and Dolhinow, Phyllis (editors)

Perspectives on Human Evolution, volumes 1 and 2

New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968-1972. First edition. Pp. xiii, 287; xiv, 491; numerous text-figures (black-and-white photos, line-drawings, halftones, graphs). Original printed yellow or blue printed wrappers, each lettered in white on the spine and front cover, 8vo. There is no hardcover edition of this work - only the softcover edition was issued. This series, developed by S. L. Washburn, is a publication of the Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Berkeley, California. The series was created to bring together the variety of evidence which helps us understand the process that has created mankind. It presents topical articles on human evolution concerning the fossil record, stone tools and biosocial problems such as development of language - all of these are seen from the ""Berkeley Perspective"" as espoused by Washburn. Many of Washburn's students and close colleagues were asked to publish in this series. Both volumes contain papers by Vincent Sarich on the biomolecular evidence for hominid origins discovered at U. C. Berkeley. There are a total 29 chapters by noted authorities in these two volumes. No ownership marks. Light wear to wrappers, a clean set in very good condition..

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Book number: 8207

Catalogue: Human Evolution

Wei, Dong (editor)

Proceedings of the 1999 Beijing International Symposium on Paleoanthropology

Beijing: Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000. First edition Pp. vi, 307; numerous line-drawings of artifacts, maps, geological charts and black-and-white photos of fossils. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, sm 4to. This work presents 40 chapters based on papers presented at the 1999 Beijing International Symposium on Paleoanthropology. Anthropologica Sinica, vol. 19, Supplement. No ownership marks and no signs of use. A fine (new) copy..

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Catalogue: Human Evolution