Product Description: During the Middle Paleolithic, various populations ancestral to modern Hone sapiens inhabited Africa, while Europe was homeland to the Neandertals. Recent archaeological investigations have provided data showing that the abrupt transition from the Middle to the Upper Neolithic, during which these populations met and interacted, was a fast-moving period of change for both groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A comprehensive examination of human evolution discusses genetics, primate evolution, fossil records and archaeological remains, human biology and ecology, brain function and behavior, and demography and disease (view table of contents)