The continent is at the centre of the science of fossil human remains, palaeoanthropology. Where and how palaeoanthropologists work, which insights they have gained so far, and what new questions their findings of pre-hominids and hominids pose for modern humans is clearly and arrestingly explained by Friedemann Schrenk. For this sixth edition, ‘Early Human History’ has been fully revised and furnished with new, coloured illustrations.