Review of the hardback: '... in this seminal text, he certainly succeeds in establishing the framework by which biological anthropologists, and particularly palaeoanthropologists, can gain more useful insights from our fossilised past.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Some of the more current themes in human evolution can be consumed in Robert Eckhardt's Human Paleobiology (Cambridge University Press, 2000)...a useful synopsis. Canadian Palaeobiology He has the knowledge and the stature to pull this off, and I believe he succeeds in making the sort of argument that will be listened to. American Journal of Human Biology