Human Antiquity

PART I. THINKING ABOUT THE PAST

1. Frameworks

2. Eden Questioned: Historical Perspectives

Contemporary Issue: Scientific Creationism: An Old Idea in a New Form

3. Evolution: An Overview

PART II. THE STUDY OF THE PAST

4. Understanding Change: Modern Evolutionary Theory

Contemporary Issue: The Human Genome

5. Learning About the Past: The Primates

Contemporary Issue: Why Save the Primates?

6. Learning About the Past: Behavioral Models for Human Evolution

7. Learning About the Past: The Material Record

Contemporary Issue: Preserving the Past

PART III. THE STORY OF THE HUMAN PAST

8. The Emergence of the Human Lineage

Contemporary Issue: Are Chimpanzees Hominids?

9. The Human Lineage Established

Contemporary Issue: The Hunting Hypothesis

10. The Human Lineage Evolves

11. On the Origin of Our Species

Contemporary Issue: Suppose Neandertal Survived

12. The Evolution of Modern Humanity

Contemporary Issue: Race and the Fossil Record

13. New Ideas, New Worlds: Life in the Upper Paleolithic

14. The Origins of Agriculture

Contemporary Issue: Our Worst Mistake?

15. The Evolution of Civilization

Contemporary Issue: The Collapse of Civilization

An Evolutionary Afterword

Glossary of Human and Nonhuman Primates

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index