W. W. Howells Prize

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2018     Close encounters with humankind : a paleoanthropologist investigates our evolving species by Sang-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon
2017     Unknown
2016     The creative spark : how imagination made humans exceptional by Agustín Fuentes
2015     The omnivorous mind : our evolving relationship with food by John S. Allen
2014     The fruit, the tree, and the serpent : why we see so well by Lynne A. Isbell
2013     Missing & murdered : a personal adventure in forensic anthropology by Alan G. Morris
2012     Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
2011     Ancient bodies, modern lives : how evolution has shaped women's health by Wenda Trevathan
2010     Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society by Bernard Chapais
2009     The ape in the tree : an intellectual and natural history of Proconsul by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
2008     Among orangutans : red apes and the rise of human culture by Carel van Schaik and Perry van Duijnhoven
2007     Skin : a natural history by Nina Jablonski
2006     Man the hunted : primates, predators, and human evolution by Donna L. Hart and Robert W. Sussman
2005     The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans by Christopher Beard
2004     Reflections of our past : how human history is revealed in our genes by John Relethford
2003     What it means to be 98% chimpanzee : apes, people, and their genes by Jonathan Marks
2002     God-apes and fossil men : paleoanthropology of South Asia by Kenneth A. R. Kennedy
2000     Mother nature : maternal instincts and how they shape the human species by Sarah Hrdy
1998     Becoming human : evolution and human uniqueness by Ian Tattersall
1997     Race and human evolution by Milford Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari
1994     Dynamics of human reproduction : biology, allometry, demography by James W. Wood
1993     A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history by Matt Cartmill
1992     Chimpanzee material culture : implications for human evolution by William McGrew
1990     How monkeys see the world : inside the mind of another species by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth