"It is a long time since I have been as enthusiastic about a book on human evolution as I am about Richard Klein's The Human Career."--Leslie Aiello, Times Higher Education Supplement

"[This book] will set a standard by which future books, setting out the course of human evolution, may measure their success."--Bobby Joe Williams, Quarterly Review of Biology

"The best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published."--Penny Dransart, Antiquity