قراءات إضافية
الفصل الثاني
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P. J. Bowler, Life’s Splendid Drama (Chicago University Press, 1996): a historical account of the efforts of scientists to reconstruct the history of life on earth.
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R. M. Henig, The Monk in the Garden (Houghton Mifflin, 2000): describes Gregor Mendel’s plant-breeding xperiments, and deals with how Mendel’s work was rediscovered.
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E. Mayr, What Evolution Is (Basic Books, 2001): a good introduction to the principles of, and evidence for, evolution.
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J. A. Moore, Sience as a Way of Knowing (Harvard University Press, 1993): beginning with the Greeks it traces the history of the major developments in biological research.
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M. Pagel, Encyclopedia of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2002): contains detailed articles about the main elements of evolutionary science.
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M. Ridley, Evolution (Blackwell, 2003): includes both evolutionary theory and the evidence for evolution.
الفصل الثالث
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J. Kalb, Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression (Springer-Verlag, 2001): focuses on the competition among scientific teams searching for early hominin fossils.
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V. Morrell, Ancestral Passions (Simon & Schuster, 1996): describes the Leakey family and many of their important discoveries.
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P. Shipman, The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and his Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right (Simon & Schuster, 2001): describes the efforts made by Eugène Dubois to find fossil hominins in Java.
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C. S. Swisher III, G. H. Curtis, and Roger Lewin, Java Man: How Two Geologists’ Dramatic Discoveries Changed our Understanding of the Evolutionary Path to Modern Humans (Scribner, 2000): chronicles efforts to generate absolute dates for the Javan hominins.
من الفصل الرابع إلى الفصل السادس
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E. Delson, I. Tattersall, J. van Couvering, and A. Brooks, Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory (Garland, 2000): detailed entries for nearly all the fossils and hominin species included in these and later chapters.
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J. K. McKee, The Riddled Chain: Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos in Human Evolution (Rutgers University Press, 2000): argues that the evidence linking events in hominin evolution with changing climates is weak.
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R. Potts, Humanity’s Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instability (Avon, 1997): argues that much of human evolution is a response to an increasingly unstable climate.
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C. Stringer and P. Andrews, The Complete World of Human Evolution (Thames & Hudson, 2005): an excellent up-to-date account of the hominin fossil evidence and the methods used to interpret it.
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I. Tattersall, The Fossil Trail: How we Know What we Think we Know about Human Evolution (Oxford University Press, 1995): a very readable account of the history of the discovery and interpretation of the hominin fossil record.
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I. Tattersall and J. H. Schwartz, Extinct Humans (Westview Press, 2000): excellent illustrations of the hominin fossil record.
الفصل السابع
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J. L. Arsuaga, The Neanderthal’s Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001): the leader of the research at Atapuerca traces the rise and fall of the Neanderthals.
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J. L. Arsuaga and I. Martinez, The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution (Blackwell, 2005): an up-to-date summary of human evolution that concentrates on the later part of the hominin fossil record.
الفصل الثامن
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J. H. Relethford, Reflections of our Past: How Human History is Revealed in our Genes (Westview, 2003): a clear and even-handed account of the implications of the inter-regional and inter-individual DNA differences among modern humans.
مواقع ويب مهمة
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This is the web site of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution. It is careful, up-to-date, and authoritative.
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This is a time-space chart of hominin fossils.
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This website is maintained by Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins. The information is reliable and the images are carefully selected. You can see and learn about the hominin fossil record here.
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This website summarizes the major hominin fossil finds.
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This site has links to biographies of scientists.
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This site has details of the important excavations at Atapuerca in Spain.
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An excellent site that features the discoveries from the Neanderthal Valley, near Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Provides images and background to fossil hominin discoveries from China.
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The Leakey Foundation website has excellent links to other sites where readers can find information about the hominin fossil record.