Wiley-Blackwell Student Dictionary of Human Evolution

The scope covered by the entries will be the same as the scope of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution: * Methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes * The fossil evidence for human evolution * The archeological record * What makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive and the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness * General evolutionary principles and up-to-date information about the molecular and developmental biological approaches used in evolutionary biology * Information about the methods used to interpret the hominin fossil and archeological records * Information about extinct creatures found with hominin fossil evidence * Information about past climates and habitats * Entries for the most important fossil and/or archeological sites * Entries for the more complete and most important hominin fossils, * Specialist terms used to describe the hominin fossil and archeological records * Hypotheses about human evolutionary history * Biographies of individuals who have made significant contributions to interpreting human evolutionary history, etc. * Where possible entries will include examples * Entries will explain complex issues in plain and simple language * Entries will correspond to commonly set exam questions