The Human Evolution Coloring Book

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This is going to be an absolutely fantastic tool in my biology classroom! I love the prosimian phylogenetic tree. This will help my students better understand how to correctly read the relationships between organisms on a phylogenetic tree. There are so many wonderfully clear illustrations for these tricky concepts.

When I got this book some years ago for class, I had a love-dislike relationship with it (my dislike is likely due to a lot of caffeine coupled with "forced coloring" for assignments which require a lot of sedentary patience and focus--the practical opposite of what caffeine is good for). It's super effective for focusing on and memorizing details. The information is printed on one page, and you fill each category in the pictures on the opposite one with their respective colors--sort of like a vividly colored diagram meets paint by number. You still have freedom to choose the color as you fill in the words and pictures though.Tracing words and concept structures (take Mendelian Genetics for instance) was helpful and effective, and works great if you are a hands-on or visual learner. And since you are tracing words like "chromosomes" or "Australopithecus," you gain the benefit of reinforcing these words by writing or psudo-writing them out through coloring/shading.The pages were very lightweight and flimsy, so markers could bleed through easily and using harder, sharpened colored pencils could occasionally puncture through the pages if not careful. However, it kept the book lightweight and made for easier carrying. I know my professor was alright with us copying the pages and then coloring them since we were only using a portion of the book, so if you have this book for a class, and think you might not be using a lot of it, you might want to try asking about this option.

I had to buy this book for my class. At first I though it was strange to use a coloring book in a university course. However, I came to understand why. The graphics in this book are simple yet informative. You color part of the picture and then color in the words associated with that part. Each page comes wih an accompanying page of information that is made simple to read yet informative without using words that you don't understand. It is great for all kinds of learners because you are reading, coloring it in, and then seeing it. I never thought I would be able to grasp the complex concepts of human evolution but this book made it really easy for me to learn. Now I know how brains of humans changed over the years and much more!

.This coloring book is good even if you're not studying evolution particularly or taking a class that requires it. The pictures are quite detailed and take some time to color so it's really worth the effort and you'll get a lot of use from this book if you enjoy coloring or colored pencil work as a hobby. No the paper won't stand up to markers- but it's still a lot of fun.

There is a lot of really interesting information about human evolution in this book. My only complaint is that it's printed on newsprint paper, so if you use markers as I do, plan on placing a blank sheet of paper between the current page and the next picture because the ink will bleed through. It's better to use colored pencils but I don't have those so the markers are my only option. I read the essay for each new picture before I complete the one before it so that I can actually read the essay without trying to see through/around the ink!

this is a great beginners resource for information regarding human evolution. without going into great detail, this book pretty much covers all the general information anyone would want to know about human evolution. i enjoyed coloring, although i was a little confused by the directions at first, as this isn't a child's coloring book, like it says in the description. for those of us that learn better by a combination of formats (reading and activities), this us a great resource.

Don't let the coloring part fool you, this is a legitimate textbook packed with information. I used this for an anthropology lab class and found it very interesting. It takes time getting used to the sometimes tricky coloring instructions, but all the information is there on each page concisely. I recommend reading each page fully at least once, then going back and doing the coloring. It's very helpful for people who learn by doing rather than reading. :)

An excellent way to learn, and the pictures are brilliant. However, I do feel that this needs updating given that it was created over ten years ago.

Well my daughter loves it, just a bit worried she is spending too much time colouring in and not enough time writing dissertations.

Una hoja contiene información sobre cierto tema relacionado a evolución y en la otra página se ilustran esquemas o dibujos, por lo que también podría considerarse un pequeño libro de texto. No es el clásico libro para colorear porque además el papel es delgado, pero para un conocedor del tema es muy interesante.

Great resource for 11 U Biology.

needed it for class and was much cheaper than the university bookstore h h h h h h h h