Robert Boyd

How Humans Evolved has long been the leading text for helping students understand the science of human evolution. With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of human genetics, recent fossil discoveries, race, and modern human behaviour, it is clear why the Tenth Edition remains, in primatologist Sarah Hrdy's words, "the text of choice for teaching physical anthropology and human evolutionary biology." New 3D...

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behaviour sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other...

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species. Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually...

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than all the rest. However, Robert Boyd argues that culture—our ability to learn from...

Late in the last century, deep in the Pacific Northwest amongst the economic and psychological hardships of one town, America's last great band was born – Nirvana. The band's leader, a young introvert with superior songwriting talents, slowly moulded a style inspired by punk, metal, sludge, and pop. The results changed the band and the music industry forever. Before the...