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Recommended Books

Available for Purchase | The Leakey Family | Africa | Archeology | Behavior | Encyclopedias/Reference | Evolution | Other | Primatology | Rock Art | Also Worth Reading

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

These books are available for purchase from The Leakey Foundation via our online store. Many are signed by the authors.

THE LEAKEY FAMILY

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  • Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings
    Morell, Virginia
    Touchstone Books (1995)

  • By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932-1951
    Leakey, L.S.B
    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1974) Out of Print

  • Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography
    Leakey, Mary
    Doubleday & Co., Inc
    (1984) Out of Print

  • Leakey’s Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972
    Cole, Sonia
    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975) Out of Print

  • Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man
    Leakey, Mary
    () Out of Print

  • One Life: An Autobiography
    Leakey, Richard E
    Salem House (1983) Out of Print

  • Origins Reconsidered
    Leakey, Richard E & Roger Lewin
    Doubleday (1992)

  • People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings
    Leakey, Richard & Roger Lewin
    Anchor Press/Doubleday (1978) Out of print

  • The Hominid Gang: Behind the Scenes in the Search for Human Origins
    Willis, Delta
    () Out of Print

  • The Leakeys
    Lambert, Lisa Ann
    The Rourke Book Company (1993)

  • The Leakey Family: Leaders in the Search for Human Origins
    Willis, Delta
    Facts on File, Inc
    (1992)

  • The Leakeys: Uncovering the Origins of Humankind
    Poynter, Margaret
    Enslow Publishers, Inc (2001)

  • Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa’s Natural Treasures
    Leakey, Richard and Virginia Morell (Contributor)
    St. Martin’s Press (2001)

AFRICA

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  • Africa Adorned
    Fisher, Angela
    H.N. Abrams (1984)

  • African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
    Stringer, Christopher & Robin McKie
    Henry Holt Co (1998)

  • Battle for the Elephants
    Douglas-Hamilton Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton
    Viking Press (1992)

  • Born Free–40th Anniversary Edition
    Adamson, Joy
    Schocken Books (2000)

  • Maasai
    Saitoti, Tepilit Ole and Carol Beckwith
    Abradale Press (1990)

  • Out of Africa
    Dinesen, Isak
    Modern Library (1992)

  • Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure
    Bull, Bartle
    Penguin (1992)

  • The End of the Game
    Beard, Peter
    Chronicle Books (2000)

  • The Flame Trees of Thika
    Huxley, Elspeth
    Penguin (2000)

  • The Green Hills of Africa
    Hemingway, Ernest
    Touchstone Books (1996)

  • The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals
    Kingdon, Jonathon
    Academic Press (1997)

  • The Tree Where Man Was Born
    Matthieson, Peter
    Penguin Nature Classics (1995)

  • The Turkana: Kenya’s Nomads of the Jade Sea
    Pavitt, Nigel
    Harry N. Abrams (1997)

  • Uhuru
    Ruark, Robert
    Buccaneer Books (1996)

ARCHAEOLOGY

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  • Archaeology: The Basics
    Gamble, Clive
    Routledge (2001)

BEHAVIOR

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  • A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior
    Forsyth, Adrian
    Firefly Books (2001)

  • A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History
    Cartmill, Matt
    Harvard University Press (1996)

  • Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
    Tattersall, Ian
    Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1999)

  • Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
    Jolly, Alison
    Harvard University Press (2001)

  • Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology
    Schick, Kathy D
    & Nicholas Toth
    Simon & Schuster (1993)

  • Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
    Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
    Pantheon Books (1999)

  • The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
    Buss, David M
    Basic Books (1995)

  • The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
    Kelly, Robert L
    Smithsonian Institution Press (1995)

  • The Growth of Humanity
    Bogin, Barry
    Wiley-Liss (2001)

  • The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
    Miller, Geoffrey F
    Anchor Books (2001)

  • What’s Love Got to Do With It?: The Evolution of Human Mating
    Small, Meredith F
    Anchor Books (1996)

ENCYCLOPEDIAS/REFERENCE

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  • Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Amit, Vered, ed.
    Routledge (2003)

  • Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life, 2nd Edition
    Ingold, Tim, ed
    Routledge (2002)

  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics
    Redei, George P
    Wiley-Liss (2003)

  • Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, 2nd Edition
    Tattersall, Ian, Eric Delson, and John van Couvering
    Garland Publishing (1999)

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
    Jones, Steve, Robert Martin, and David Pilbeam
    Cambridge University Press (1992)

EVOLUTION

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  • Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution
    Edey, Maitland A. & Donald C. Johanson
    Little Brown (1990)

  • Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
    Browne, Janet
    Knopf (2002)

  • Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction [4th Edition]
    Lewin, Roger
    Blackwell Science Inc (1999)

  • The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
    Gould, Stephen Jay
    Harvard University Press (2002)

  • What Evolution Is
    Mayr, Ernst
    Basic Books (2001)

OTHER

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  • The Chimpanzee Family Book (The Animal Family Series)
    Goodall, Jane
    North South Books (1997)

  • The Human Evolution Coloring Book
    Zihlman, Adrienne L
    Harper Resource (2001)

PRIMATOLOGY

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  • A Primate’s Memoir
    Sapolsky, Robert M
    Scribner & Sons (2001)

  • African Apes (All Apes Great and Small, Volume 1)
    Galdikas, Birute M.F., Nancy Erickson, Lori K Sheeran, Gary L Shapiro, and Jane Goodall, eds
    Plenum Publishing Corp (2002)

  • Almost Human: A Journey Into the World of Baboons
    Strum, Shirley C and George B Schaller
    University of Chicago Press (2001)

  • Among Orangutans: Red Apes and The Rise of Human Culture
    van Schaik, Carel with photos by Perry van Duijnhoven
    The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2004)

  • Apes, Language, and the Human Mind
    Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue et al.
    Oxford Univ Press (1998)

  • Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
    De Waal, Frans and Frans Lanting
    University of California Press (1997)

  • Chimpanzee Cultures
    Wrangham, Richard W., W.C McGrew, Frans de Waal, and Paul G Heltne, eds.
    Harvard University Press (1996)

  • Comparative Primate Socioecology
    Lee, P.C., ed
    Cambridge University Press (2001)

  • Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
    Wrangham, Richard and Dale Peterson
    Mariner Books (1997)

  • Gorillas in the Mist
    Fossey, Dian
    Houghton Mifflin Co (1988)

  • How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
    Cheney, Dorothy L and Robert M Seyfarth
    University of Chicago Press (1992)

  • Infanticide by Males and its Implications
    van Schaik, Carel and Charles H Janson, eds
    Cambridge University Press (2000)

  • In the Shadow of Man [Revised]
    Goodall, Jane and David Hamburg
    Houghton Mifflin Co (2000)

  • Introduction to the Primates
    Swindler, Daris Ray
    University of Washington Press (1998)

  • My Life with the Chimpanzees [Revised-2]
    Goodall, Jane
    Aladdin Library (1996)

  • Primate Adaptation and Evolution [2nd Edition]
    Fleagle, John G.
    Academic Press (1998)

  • Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge, and the Evolution of Culture
    Quiatt, Duane and Vernon Reynolds
    Cambridge University Press (1995)

  • Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society
    Strum, Shirley C and Linda Marie Fedigan, eds
    University of Chicago Press (2000)

  • Primates Face to Face: The Conservation Implications of Human-nonhuman Primate Interconnections
    Fuentes, Augustin and Linda Wolfe, eds
    Cambridge University Press (2002)

  • Primates in Nature
    Richard, Alison F
    W.H Freeman & Co (1985)

  • Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans Of Borneo
    Galdikas, Birute M.F
    Back Bay Books (1996)

  • The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections of a Primatologist
    De Waal, Frans
    Basic Books (2001)

  • The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior
    Stanford, Craig B
    Princeton University Press (1999)

  • The Primate Fossil Record
    Hartwig, Walter
    Cambridge University Press (2002)

  • Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
    Montgomery, Sy
    Houghton Mifflin Co (1992)

ROCK ART

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  • African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone
    Coulson, David and Alec Campbell
    Harry N Abrams (2001)

  • Dawn of Art : The Chauvet Cave: The Oldest Known Paintings in the World
    Chauvet, Jean-Marie, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire
    Harry N Abrams (1996)

  • European Landscapes of Rock-Art
    Nash, George and Chippendale, Christopher
    Routledge (2002)

  • Handbook of Rock Art Research
    Whitley, David S., ed
    Altamira Press (2001)

  • The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
    Lewis-Williams, David
    Thames & Hudson (2002)

  • The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
    Clottes, Jean, David Lewis-Williams, and Sophie Hawkes
    Harry N Abrams (1998)

  • Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art
    Morwood, M.J.
    Smithsonian Institution Press (2002)

  • World Rock Art
    Clottes, Jean
    Getty Trust Publications (2002)

ALSO WORTH READING

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  • A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
    Calvin, William H
    University of Chicago Press (2002)

  • An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy
    Aiello, Leslie and Christopher Dean
    Academic Press (1990)

  • Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species
    Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan
    Basic Books (2002)

  • African Exodus, the Origins of Modern Humanity
    McKie, Robin and Christopher Stringer
    Henry Holt (1998)

  • Biological Anthropology: A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution (2nd Edition)
    Boaz, Noel Thomas and Alan J Almquist
    Prentice Hall (2001)

  • Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature
    Goldsmith, Timothy H and William F Zimmerman
    John Wiley & Sons (2000)

  • Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins [2nd Edition]
    Lewin, Roger
    Simon & Schuster (1997)

  • Brain Evolution and Cognition
    Roth, Gerhard and Mario F Wullimann, eds
    Wiley-Liss (2000)

  • Colbert’s Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals through Time, 5th Edition
    Colbert, Edwin H., Michael Morales, and Eli C Minkoff
    Wiley-Liss (2001)

  • Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory
    Lourandos, Harry
    Cambridge University Press (1997)

  • Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
    Gould, Stephen Jay
    W.W Norton & Co., Inc (1992)

  • Evolutionary Medicine
    Trevathan, Wenda, James J
    McKenna, and Euclid O Smith, eds
    Oxford University Press (1999)

  • Extinct Humans
    Tattersall, Ian & Jeffrey H Schwartz
    Westview (2000)

  • From Lucy to Language
    Johanson, Donald C, et al.
    Simon & Schuster (1996)

  • Genes, Peoples and Languages
    Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
    North Point Press (2000)

  • Genetics and the Search for Modern Human Origins
    Relethford, John H
    Wiley-Liss (2001)

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    Diamond, Jared
    W.W Norton & Co (1999)

  • Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective
    Stinson, Sara, Barry Bogin, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, and Dennis O’Rourke, eds
    Wiley-Liss (2002)

  • Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
    Wood, Bernard
    Oxford University Press, USA (2006)

  • Human Evolution: Trails from the Past
    Camilo J Cela-Conde Francisco J
    Ayala Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (2007)

  • Human Origins : The Fossil Record
    Larson, Clark Spencer
    Waveland Press; 3 edition (1998)

  • Human Osteology [2nd Edition]
    White, Tim D.
    Academic Press (1999)

  • Human Paleobiology
    Eckhardt, Robert B.
    Cambridge University Press (2000)

  • Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
    Panter-Brick, Catherine, Robert Layton, and Peter Rowley-Conwy, eds
    Cambridge University Press (2001)

  • Journey Through the Ice Age
    Bahn, Paul and Jean Vertut
    University of California Press (1997)

  • Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
    Johanson, Donald C & Maitland Edey
    Touchstone Books (1990)

  • Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order
    Goodall, Jane
    Routledge (2002)

  • Prehistory of Australia
    Mulvaney, John and Johan Kamminga
    Smithsonian Institution Press (1999)

  • Quest: The Essence of Humanity
    Pasternak, Charles
    John Wiley & Sons (2003)

  • Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis
    Conroy, Glenn C.
    W.W Norton & Co., Inc (1997)

  • Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
    Zimmer, Carl
    HarperCollins Publishers; First Edition (2005)

  • The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    Pinker, Steven
    Viking Press (2002)

  • The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution
    Arsuaga, Juan Luis
    Wiley-Blackwell; English Ed edition (2005)

  • The Complete World of Human Evolution
    Stringer, Chris
    Thames & Hudson (2005)

  • The Dawn of Human Culture
    Klein, Richard G and Blake Edgar
    John Wiley & Sons (2002)

  • The Evolution of Homo Erectus: Comparative Anatomical Studies of an Extinct Human Species
    Rightmire, Philip G.
    Cambridge University Press (1993)

  • The Evolution of Modern Human Diversity: A Study of Cranial Variation
    Lahr, Marta Mirazsn
    Cambridge University Press (1996)

  • The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
    Gibbons, Ann
    Anchor (2007)

  • The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution
    Tattersall, Ian
    Oxford University Press (1995)

  • The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
    Klein, Richard G.
    University of Chicago Press (1999)

  • The Human Evolution Source Book
    Cichon, Russell and John G Fleagle
    Prentice Hall (1993)

  • The Human Fossil Record: Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia), Volume 2
    Schwartz, Jeffrey H and Ian Tattersall
    John Wiley & Sons (2003)

  • The Human Fossil Record: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe)
    Schwartz, Jeffrey H and Ian Tattersall
    Wiley-Liss (2002)

  • The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
    Yale University Press (2007)

  • The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA
    Jones, Martin
    Arcade Publishing (2002)

  • The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
    Tattersall, Ian
    Harcourt (2002)

  • The Neanderthal’s Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers
    Arsuaga, Juan Luis
    Four Walls Eight Windows (2002)

  • The Past in Prehistoric Societies
    Bradley, Richard
    Routledge (2002)

  • The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
    Konner, Melvin J
    W H Freeman & Co (2001)

  • The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal [Revised]
    Diamond, Jared
    Harper Perennial Library (1993)

  • The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
    Lewontin, Richard
    Harvard University Press (2000)

  • The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on The Biology of the Human Predicament
    Sapolsky, Robert A.
    Touchstone Books (1998)

  • What the Bones Tell Us
    Schwartz, Jeffrey H.
    University of Arizona Press (1998)

  • Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
    Hauser, Marc D
    Owl Books (2001)

  • Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
    Walker, Alan & Pat Shipman
    Vintage Books (1997)

  • Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
    Gould, Stephen Jay
    W.W Norton & Co., Inc (1990)

  • Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
    Nesse, Randolph M and George C Williams
    Vintage Books (1996)