Overview
Introduction
The Sprawling Story of Human Evolution
by Fred Guterl
Section 1: Becoming Us
1.1 Lucy’s Baby
by Kate Wong
1.2 First of Our Kind
by Kate Wong
1.3 The Naked Truth
by Nina G. Jablonski
Section 2: Secrets of Our Success
2.1 What Makes Us Different?
by Katherine S. Pollard
2.2 Cooking Up Bigger Brains
by Rachael Moeller Gorman
2.3 The Evolution of Grandparents
by Rachel Caspari
2.4 Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology
by David J. Buller
Section 3: Migration and Colonization
3.1 When the Sea Saved Humanity
by Curtis W. Marean
3.2 Traces of a Distant Past
by Gary Stix
3.3 The First Americans
by Heather Pringle
SECTION 4: Vanished Humans
4.1 Twilight of the Neandertals
by Kate Wong
4.2 Our Inner Neandertal
by Kate Wong
4.3 Rethinking the Hobbits of Indonesia
by Kate Wong
SECTION 5: Our Continuing Evolution
5.1 Why We Help
by Martin A. Nowak
5.2 How We Are Evolving
by Jonathan K. Pritchard
5.3 What May Become of Us?
by Peter Ward