| List of contributors | |
| 1 | Photogallery of fossil skulls | 3 |
| 2 | An outline of human phylogeny | 31 |
| 3 | Evolutionary trees of apes and humans from DNA sequences | 53 |
| 4 | Evolution of the human brain | 74 |
| 5 | Evolution of the hand and bipedality | 126 |
| 6 | Primate communication, lies, and ideas | 167 |
| 7 | Social relations, human ecology, and the evolution of culture: an exploration of concepts and definitions | 178 |
| 8 | Social relations, communication, and cognition | 204 |
| 9 | On the evolution of human socio-cultural systems | 239 |
| 10 | The evolution of tools and symbolic behaviour | 263 |
| 11 | A history of the interpretation of European 'palaeolithic art': magic, mythogram, and metaphors for modernity | 288 |
| 12 | Photogallery of contemporary hunter-gatherer rock art | 350 |
| 13 | The role of ontogenesis in human evolution and development | 400 |
| 14 | The ontogeny and evolution of the brain, cognition, and language | 407 |
| 15 | Early interaction and cognitive skills: implications for the acquisition of culture | 432 |
| 16 | The origins of language and thought in early childhood | 469 |
| 17 | Theories of symbolization and development | 483 |
| 18 | Children's drawings and the evolution of art | 501 |
| 19 | Map gallery of the distribution and classification of extant human languages | 532 |
| 20 | Spoken language and sign language | 553 |
| 21 | A history of the study of language origins and the gestural primacy hypothesis | 571 |
| 22 | Cognitive abilities in a comparative perspective | 596 |
| 23 | Animal language and cognition projects | 644 |
| 24 | Symbols and structures in language-acquisition | 686 |
| 25 | The reconstruction of the evolution of human spoken language | 747 |
| 26 | Theoretical stages in the prehistory of grammar | 776 |
| 27 | Social and cognitive factors in the historical elaboration of writing | 793 |
| 28 | Tempo and mode of change in the evolution of symbolism | 861 |
| Time Charts | 878 |
| Index | 887 |
Format: Paperback, 928 pages
