Man's Evolution

by C. Loring Brace

TABLE OF CONTENTS: General biological background. Organic continuity -- Principles of evolution -- Taxonomy and primate classification -- The fossil record. Dating problems and the Cenozoic geological sequence -- Pre-Pleistocene primates -- History of the discovery of the fossils -- The stages of human evolution -- Interpretive summary of the fossil record -- Living people. Human variation and its significance -- Continuing evolution.