Praise for the first "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB
The most comprehensive encyclopedia on human archeology. It would be good if there is also an encyclopedia like this for dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures and plants. This is indeed a long read, more than 2200 pages here.