Spencer Wells
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how ... [... more]
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Eyewitness Early Humans
 Get your kids hooked on anthropology: DK eyewitness books are some of the greatest non-fiction books around. The distinctive white background and high-quality photography gives this book an edge over any other nonfiction picture book. And -- these [... more]
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Walking With Prehistoric Beasts
From Amazon.com: Imagine a National Geographic survey of a natural world that hasn't existed for millions of years. The sequel to the mesmerizing Walking with Dinosaurs, one of the most imaginative explorations of the prehistoric world ever made, once [... more]
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Human Beginnings in South Afri
Ideal for students and the non-specialist general reader.: Archaeology has conclusively documented through the discovery of fossil remains of early humans that Africa is the cradle of homosapiens. Human Beginnings In South Africa: Uncovering The Secrets [... more]
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the ...
From Amazon.com: Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress [... more]
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Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's ...
Amazon.ca: The desert has long been a source of fascination and dread for mankind. But little has been written about oases, those islands of flora and fauna that are able to support life in an otherwise unforgiving landscape. Harry Thurston's Island of [... more]
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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with ...
From Amazon.com: Beyond croaking, "Nevermore," what exactly do ravens do all day? Bernd Heinrich, biology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Ravens in Winter, has spent more than a decade learning the secrets of these giants [... more]
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The Origin Of Humankind
Good introduction into Human Evolution: If I were an expert on anthropology and human evolution I probably wouldn't be reading a book on it from the Science Masters Series. This is really something of a primer on human evolution for people like me (I'm a [... more]
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From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
Quite interesting: It may seem unusual for a psychologist to publish a book on linguistics and the origins of human language, but Michael Corballis has produced an intriguing work full of speculation and theory. The author asks an essential question--why [... more]
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Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the ...
Wonderful reading: I've been reading one chapter a night to my eight year old, and he and I have both loved this book. It discusses the history of whaling, from early humans through modern times. Whenever possible, the author quotes primary sources, [... more]
CDN$8.98
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Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
Marriage counsellor: Gerald Edelman grieves over the "divorce" science and the humanities have experienced. Since there is no final decree in the proceedings, he wants to heal the breach. He has a mechanism to further the reconciliation - [... more]
CDN$13.54
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Eyewitness Early Humans
Author: Dorling Kindersley Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 930.1 EAN: 9780756610678 ISBN: 0756610672 Number Of Pages: 72 Publication Date: 2005-03-22 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: 2005-03-22 [... more]
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