Book description
This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of
important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how
we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entries in this two-volume set cover
evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the
living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern
humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that
distinctiveness, as well as information about modern methods used to
trace the recent evolutionary history of modern human populations. This
text provides a resource for everyone studying the emergence of
Homo sapiens.
Visit the companion site www. woodhumanevolution. com
to browse additional references and updates from this comprehensive
encyclopedia.
Bernard Wood is the University Professor of Human Origins in
the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University, and
Adjunct Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History,
the Smithsonian Institution. He is a medically-qualified
paleoanthropologist who moved into full-time academic life in 1972. He
holds the degrees of B. Sc., M. D., Ph. D., and D. Sc. from The
University of London. In 1982 he was appointed to the S. A. Courtauld
Chair of Anatomy in The University of London, and in 1985 he moved to
the Derby Chair of Anatomy and to the Chairmanship of the Department
of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Liverpool. He
was appointed the Dean of The University of Liverpool Medical School
in 1995 and served as Dean until his move to Washington in the fall of
1997. When he was still a medical student he joined Richard Leakey's
first expedition to what was then Lake Rudolf in 1968 and he has
remained associated with that research group, and pursued research in
paleoanthropology, ever since. His research centers on increasing our
understanding of human evolutionary history by developing and
improving the ways we analyze the hominid fossil record. He is the
author of numerous publications and Director of the Center for the
Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at GWU.
