Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-394) and index.
Introduction -- Interlude 1 : creationism and other brainstorms -- Evolution of the Miocene great apes -- Later Miocene and Pliocene hominids -- Interlude 2 : the importance of being an ape -- Our kind of hominins -- A systematic scheme for the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene hominids -- Interlude 3 : of men's beards and peacock's tails -- The first African exodus : the emergence of early homo in Europe and Asia -- Human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene -- Interlude 4 : the geography of humanity -- "The grisly folk" : the emergence of the Neanderthals -- The second African exodus : the emergence of modern humans -- The emergence of modern humans in Asia and Australia -- Interlude 5 : Milford Wolpoff in the Garden of Eden -- Epilogue.