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In the Age of Mankind: A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution
In the Age of Mankind A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution Author:Roger Lewin Lewin is the co-author, with anthropologist Richard Leakey, of Origins and People of the Lake . Here, starting with the fossil nonhuman primates, he traces human development through the appearance of Homo sapiens and the domestication of plants and animals to the origins of the state and consideration of possible future changes. Not since F. Cla... more »rk Howell's Early Man (1973), a Time-Life book, has the excitement, controversy, and knowledge about human biological and cultural evolution been so successfully conveyed. With 261 color illustrations, this should be a first recommendation when someone asks for an introduction to anthropology. William S. Dancey, Ohio State Univ., Columbus« less