If we restrict the use of Homo sapiens in the fossil record to specimens which share a
significant number of derived features in the skeleton with extant H. sapiens, the origin of our …

Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

Fossil evidence points to an African origin of Homo sapiens from a group called either H.
heidelbergensis or H. rhodesiensis. However, the exact place and time of emergence of H …

The timing and location of the emergence of our species and of associated behavioural
changes are crucial for our understanding of human evolution. The earliest fossil attributed …

Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from their extinct
Homo relatives. The characteristic globularity develops during a prenatal and early postnatal …

The high energetic costs of human brain development have been hypothesized to explain
distinctive human traits, including exceptionally slow and protracted preadult growth …

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals.
Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the …

For centuries, physical imaging tools have been opening new frontiers in biology. The
discovery of the cell nucleus by Scottish botanist Robert Brown was made possible by early …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

MicroComputed Tomography has become the gold standard for studying 3D microscopic
structures nondestructively, and this book provides up-to-date coverage of the modality. The …