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"Summary:This book critically reviews theory, assumptions, methods and literature to examine the unique role of teeth in preserving records of human growth."

""This text is an introduction to the field of biological anthropology (also known as physical anthropology), the science concerned with human biological evolution and variation. The text addresses the major questions that concern biological anthropologists: What are humans? How are we similar to and different from other animals? Where are our origins? How did we evolve? Are we still evolving? How are we different from one another? What does the future hold for the human species?"--"

"Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search. In this volume, we bring together new research into the archaeology, human paleontology, chronology, and environmental context of modern human origins in North Africa. The result is a volume that better integrates the North African record into the modern human origins debate and at the same time highlights the research questions that are currently the focus of continued work in the area.​"

"This is a book about the importance of music in human evolution and its continued relevance to modern-day human society-how, from the very beginning of our species, musical communication has been a key component of prosocial, cooperative behaviors, acting as a counterweight to the other, newly evolved human communication system-language. It is about why music continues to be an essential part of human cognitive well-being in the twenty-first century. Early chapters review the amusia and neuroimaging literature to describe music processing in the brain, contrasting this with how the brain processes language. The time-course and possible drivers of human evolution, in particular the evolution of the human brain and its unique cognitive abilities, are discussed, with proposals as to why humans evolved two distinct communication systems from a presumed precursor, including hypotheses concerning the possible evolutionary benefits to the species of cooperative music-making (and dance). Two chapters then focus on a review of the neuroimaging literature and the links between music, altruism, and social cooperation. Areas of the brain that are active when performing mutually cooperative tasks are also active when listening to familiar and emotionally rewarding music, music that reinforces empathy and the sharing of affective states. Levels of the hormone oxytocin, known to enhance trust and prosociality, are also increased during group music-making. It is proposed that music played a key role in fostering trust and cultural cohesion in evolving modern humans. Finally, it is argued that music should form an essential part of education and should be more widely used as a therapeutic tool in clinical practice and rehabilitation."

""For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as 'hunters and gatherers', and for most of this time, as talking individuals. No direct evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the evolution of language"--"

"Evolutionary science is critical for an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognized as a core discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the fields of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology, and epidemiology have led to the growing realization that incorporation of evolutionary thinking is essential for medicine to achieve its full potential. This revised and updated second edition of the first comprehensive textbook of evolutionary medicine explains the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and focuses on how medicine and public health might utilize evolutionary thinking. The first part of the book provides a summary of the evolutionary theory relevant to understanding human health and disease, using examples specifically relevant to medicine. The second part describes the application of evolutionary principles to understanding particular aspects of human medicine: reproduction, metabolism, behavior, the implications of our coevolution with micro-organisms, and cancer. The two parts are bridged by a chapter that details pathways by which evolutionary processes affect disease risk and symptoms, and how hypotheses in evolutionary medicine can be tested. A further chapter illustrates the application of evolutionary biology to medicine and public health, with a number of new clinical examples. The final chapter uses a historical perspective to consider the ethical and societal issues arising from the interface between evolution and medicine."