Talk:Introduction to Paleoanthropology

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[[Category:Anthropology]][[Category:Introduction to Paleoanthropology]]

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[edit] TOC Suggestions

I think there are enough chapters here that it might be worth breaking them up into units to make the chunks more manageable: background basics, earliest hominids, paleolithic, etc. Then perhaps the interior TOC box could be changed to show only the TOC for that unit, so it's not so long and doesn't break up the layout of the page so much.

If I was comfortable enough with templates to fuss with yours, I'd also go ahead and make the bibliography section, and include your "Class notes" reference. With as much text here as there is, people might expect it to be more finished than it really is; if they can see that it's still a draft being converted from lecture notes, it might ward off problems.

Finally, I think it needs more text, either in chapter 1 or immediately before or after it, that focuses on hominids. Most people probably aren't coming to a book on paleoanthropology to read about genetics, or the history of Darwinism, or linguistics, or whatnot -- they're looking for Bones! Fossils! Cave Men! Lucy! Neat Stuff! The background stuff is important, but we need to give them a substantial appetizer of the neat stuff first, so that they're willing to keep reading the background before getting to the meat of the book, instead of getting frustrated and wandering off in search of fossils elsewhere. At the very least, we need a good description of what a hominid is and what a hominid isn't, and what a paleoanthropologist does and doesn't study. (Chapter 1 made a start on what a paleoanthropologist does and doesn't study, but then it gets muddled in the following chapters.)--Bedawyn 22:07, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] impressive results

Just want to compliment all editors on this wikibook. WbZurp 22:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)