Human evolution is not a neglected topic: A search on amazon.com, for example, turns up more than 1,400 books on the subject. Stanford anthropologist Richard Klein has written several, including the widely acclaimed The Human Career, and science writer Blake Edgar has collaborated with Donald Johanson on two. True, knowledge of our ancestry is growing fast, so there are always new additions to the old story. But more than that is needed to justify yet another overview of how we became us. The new book Klein has written with Edgar, The Dawn of Human Culture, aims to bring the very latest developments in paleoanthropology to a wide, nonspe-cialist audience. Clear, readable and briskly written, it covers six million years in under 300 pages and includes plentiful maps, diagrams and illustrations. Although it contains little that is new to those familiar with the field, it provides newcomers with an introduction that is more than adequate in some respects, if slightly less so in others.
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机译：人类进化不是一个被忽视的话题：例如，在amazon.com上进行的搜索发现了1,400多本有关该主题的书。斯坦福大学人类学家理查德·克莱因（Richard Klein）撰写了几本书，其中包括广受赞誉的《人类职业》（The Human Career），科学作家布莱克·埃德加（Blake Edgar）与唐纳德·约翰逊（Donald Johanson）合作了两本书。的确，关于我们祖先的知识正在迅速增长，因此，旧故事总是有新的内容。但是，除了证明我们成为我们的方式的另一概览之外，还需要做更多的工作。克莱因与埃德加（Edgar）共同撰写的新书《人类文化的黎明》旨在将古人类学的最新发展带给广大非社会主义的读者。内容清晰，可读性强，书写快，涵盖300万页的内容，内容涵盖六百万年，包括丰富的地图，图表和插图。尽管它包含的内容对于熟悉该领域的人来说是新的，但它为新手提供的介绍在某些方面是足够的，而在其他方面则稍有不足。
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