Getting here : the story of human evolution / by William Howells.

Washington, DC : Compass Press, [1993], ©1993.

xiii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Includes index

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

The evolution of evolution -- Patterns without plans -- Reptiles and mammals -- The primates -- The all important hominoids -- Primate ancestors -- The first hominids -- Enter Homo -- Homo erectus -- Some housekeeping: ice, tools, names, lineages -- The problem of transition -- The Neanderthals: a melancholy story -- New horizons -- Looking backward -- Out of Africa? -- Australian challenges -- The mysterious East -- The big picture -- End results.