- A
- A challenge to Eurocentrism
- Acknowledgements
- Archaic and transitional hominins
- Archaic hominins from East Africa
- Archaic hominins from southern Africa
- C
- Introduction
- Finding our place
- Early hominins possible and probable
- Chimps have almost no fossil record
- Cladistic analysis
- Classification and taxonomy
- Contenders for the title of the earliest hominin
- Contents
- Conventional wisdom
- Dating hominin fossils
- Discoveries new dates and molecular evidence
- Eurocentrism in paleoanthropology
- Evidence of connections
- Family Hylobatidae hylobatids
- Finding fossil hominins
- Fluctuations and general cooling trend in ratios of heavy 180 and light 160 oxygen isotopes
- Fossil DNA
- Fossilization
- Fossils
- Fossils rediscovered
- Further reading
- Geology emerges
- Global climate change0
- Grades
- H
- Homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Homo neanderthalensis
- How to tell an early hominin from an early panin
- Human Evolution
- I
- Ii
- Implications for interpreting the human fossil record
- Info
- Interpreting the southern African hominins
- Interrogating the genome
- Evolution an explanation for the Tree of Life
- J Reconstructing whole fossils from fragments
- Kenyanthropus
- L
- Let battle commence
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Migration or gene flow
- Mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthals
- Mitochondrial
- Modern humans beyond Africa
- Modern humans in Asia Sahul and Oceania
- Modern humans in Europe
- Modern humans in Sahul
- Modern humans in the New World
- O
- Our closest relatives
- Out of Africa who and when
- P
- Premodern Homo
- Reason is replaced by faith
- Reconstructing past environments
- S
- Science reemerges
- Simplicity versus complexitye
- Speciation
- Species and species identification
- Splitters and lumpers
- T
- Teamwork
- The first hominins
- The flowering of genetics
- The hominin fossil record
- Timeline of thought and science relevant to human origins and evolution
- Transitional hominins