1. Fossils, fossilization, and dating methods -- 2. The meaning and process of evolution -- 3. Determining evolutionary relationships -- 4. Our place in the Animal Kingdom -- 5. Reconstructing human behavioural patterns and social organizations: Use of the comparative approach -- 6. Early primate evolution -- 7. The transition to apes -- 8. Trends in human evolution -- 9. Human ancestors of the pliocene and lower pleistocene -- 10. Homo erectus -- 11. Early Homo sapiens -- 12. Neanderthals and their immediate predecessors -- 13. The appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens -- 14. Conclusion

1. Fossil hominids
2. Human evolution
3. Prehistoric peoples