Journal of Human Evolution – Book Review Blog

Sutton, MQ, KD Sobolik, & JK Gardner (2010) Paleonutrition. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-8165-2794-6

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June 2010, Multi-Authored books Archaeology, Diet, Skeletal biology

Nowell, A & I Davidson, eds. (2010) Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 234 pp. ISBN 978-1-60732-030-2

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Edited Volumes, June 2010 Archaeology, Cognitive evolution, Lithics

Shea, JJ & DE Lieberman (eds) (2009) Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. Oxbow Books, Oxford. 498 pp. ISBN 978-1-84217-340-4

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Edited Volumes, May 2010 Archaeology, Paleoanthropology

Garland, Jr., T & MR Rose (eds) (2009) Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments. University of California Press. 730 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24766-6 (cloth), 978-0-520-26180-8 (paper).

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Edited Volumes, May 2010 Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary process, Experimental evolution

O’Brien MJ and SJ Shennan (eds) (2010) Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. The MIT Press, Cambridge. 284 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01333-8

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April 2010, Edited Volumes Archaeology, Cultural evolution, Evolutionary process

Rice, DP, ed (2009) Craniofacial Sutures: Development, Disease, and Treatment. Karger, Switzerland. 236 pp. ISBN 978-3-8055-8326-8

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April 2010, Edited Volumes Craniofacial biology

Hovers, E (2009) The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave. Human Evolution Series, RL Ciochon & BA Wood, Eds. Oxford University Press, New York. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-532277-4

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April 2010, Monograph, Single-Authored Books Archaeology, Levant, Lithics, Middle Palaeolithic, Modern human origins

Milner R. 2009.  Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z. University of California Press, London. 488 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24376-7

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March 2010, Popular Science, Single-Authored Books, Textbooks Evolutionary process, Evolutionary theory, History of science

Klein RG. 2009. The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, 3rd edition. The University of Chicago Press. 989 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-43965-5

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March 2010, Single-Authored Books, Textbooks Archaeology, Paleoanthropology

Wilkins JS. 2009. Species: A History of the Idea. University of California Press; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 305 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-26085-6 (HB).

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February 2010, Single-Authored Books History of science, Species concepts