From Tools to Symbols. From Early Hominids to Modern Humans, 2005, 556 p. -

Sub-Saharan Africa provides an archaeological and palaeontological record that is crucial to understanding the anatomical and behavioural evolution of early humans. This book represents an excellent synthesis of recent research on the origins of humankind, the evolution of the human brain and the emergence of modern human cultures from a number of disciplines such as palaeoanthropology, genetics, primatology, and archaeology. It is based on collaborative research by South African, French, American and German scholars, and contains twenty-seven papers presented at a conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeoanthropologist Phillip Tobias in 2003.