Anthropology from Lems Bookshop

The culture and religious beliefs and practices of prehistoric man and compares this with existent primitive peoples - the result of 17 years of research. 344 pages with 117 black and white photographs and drawings/maps in the text. Book in good+ condition ex library with sticker and references on front endpaper, borrowing sleeve remnants and references on back endpapers, small… Read more about this item

The evolution of the idea of evolution - all we have learned about the shaping of life on earth in the decades since Darwin, recounting the personal battles, sacrifices, and triumphs. 418 pages with 16 pages of black and white photographs and figures in the text. Book in good+ condition ex library with reference on first and last pages, stamp… Read more about this item

Cladistics is a simple technique of comparison and makes no assumptions about ancestry and descent and it punches holes in our view of evolution. 262 pages. Book in very good condition ex library with stamps on title page and endpapers. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

In 1812 a twelve year old girl, Mary Anning, discovered the outline of a lizard-like skeleton in the limestone cliffs of Dorset which attracted the attention of William Buckland who used that find and other remnant fossils to try and understand the world before Noah's flood. Meanwhile another naturalist, Gideon Mantell discovered giant fossil bones in a Sussex quarry and… Read more about this item

The enormity of time from the Big Bang to the rise of the humans. Life on Earth began more than 3.5 billion years ago and humans first evolved 100,000 years ago - the complexity and variety of life on Earth through the vastness of time. 247 pages illustrated throughout with full colour photographs, explanatory diagrams and stunning artworks. Book and… Read more about this item

Life developed from the material constituents of the Earth by some logical process and the book aims to present a contemporary view of the process - an attempt to draw from the relevant fields of current enquiry a logical sequence of cause and effect in the progression of life on Earth. 192 pages with 50 full page colour illustrations. Book… Read more about this item

Human history from the origins of man up to the beginnings of literate history in four parts: Prehistory; Hunters and Gatherers; Farmers; Cities and Civilizations. 417 pages with illustrations on most pages. Book in good+ condition with previous owners name and date on first page, some light reader wear, and pages 407-412 loose. Cover has some minor wear (see photo).

The prehistory of Europe eight chapters: Prologue; The Epoch of Foundation; Mesolithic Europe and the Dawn of Civilization; The South-East and the Danubian Expansion; The West, The Sea-Ways, and The North; Migration, Conflict, and Change; The Bronze Age and the European Achievement; Epilogue. 414 pages with 12 Plates, 6 Maps, 6 Tables and 27 Text Illustrations. Book in very good+… Read more about this item

An overview of the human background and an introduction to archaeology - a culture process approach. 406 pages with 75 figures in the text. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on front and back endpaper, top, side and bottom and title page, and borrowing sleave inside back cover and light tanning. Cover has sticker on spine and… Read more about this item

The origin and development of humanity; the origins of art and religion, the development of the incest taboo. 289 pages with 3 Plates, 23 Text Illustrations, and 5 Maps. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and date on title page, small booksellers sticker inside front cover, and light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition with some… Read more about this item

Edition not stated, revised and updated. In Origin of the Species, Darwin gave a clear sketch of his principle of sexual selection and stated that was applicable to man. The book is divided into three Parts: The Descent or Origin of Man; Sexual Selection; Sexual Selection in Relation to Man. 430 pages with 26 Figures in the text, top gilt… Read more about this item

Donald Johanson who found the famous Lucy skeleton which forced a major reinterpretation of the early stages of human evolution, returned to Africa a decade later and something wildly fortuitous occurred when after only three days the survey team finds a two million year old elbow and then part of a jaw bone in the apparent fossil exhausted Olduvai Gorge.… Read more about this item

A new theory on the transition from an ape-like ancestor to the early humanoids - a model for the reconstruction of the lifeways of the ancestral ape population, the transitional population, and the early humanoids. It suggests that plant gathering with tools by females for obtaining sufficient food to share with their offspring was a very early innovation and one… Read more about this item

Two volumes. The Third Edition but possibly First English Edition as it is translated from the German. The first attempt (in 1874) to present the facts of human evolution to a wider circle of reader with some revisions and updates, and rebuttals to expected criticism in the Third Edition (in 1876). Vol 1 467 pages with 11 Plates, 162… Read more about this item

The author describes his fossil hunting and discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory and his pondering on how we became human and what human really means. 375 pages and 16 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in good+ condition with some tanning, some minor marks to edges, and small booksellers sticker on back cover.

The various human civilizations in Europe and the north coast of Africa during those early periods before historical record was invented. 438 pages with 47 plates. Book in very good+ condition with foxing to endpapers and some light tanning. Cover has some minor wear (see photos)

Human history from the origins of humankind up to the beginnings of literate civilization in six sections: Prehistory. The First Humans, Homo Sapiens and Hunter-Gatherers, Farmers, Old World Civilizations, New World Civilizations. 622 pages with illustrations on most pages. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name on first page and small booksellers sticker on back cover.

Translated from the German by Susan Cupitt. Man's search for his ancestry in words and pictures starting when a country parson stumbled upon what proved to be the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man in the Neandertal, a small valley in Germany in 1856, followed by Darwin's The Origin of the Species in 1859. 287 pages with 292 illustrations, 19… Read more about this item

An account of the search for a Missing Link between apes and man, and of the men and women who have devoted their lives to it. 272 pages with 56 illustrations most in colour. Book in near fine condition with previous owners name and address inside front cover. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with some minor… Read more about this item

How did an ape-like creature which lived fourteen million years ago evolve into an upright-walking, highly intelligent, sensitive, skillful and inventive being - a being so much a master of its environment that it can transform it. A unique and fascinating record of the evolution of mankind. 256 pages with illustrations on most pages mainly in colour and 12 maps.… Read more about this item