The Human Lineage by Matt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith, waspublished by Wiley in Spring 2009. It received overwhelminglyfavorable reviews, and rapidly rose to become the standard textbooktreatment of the fossil record of human evolution. In thesucceeding five years, many crucial new findings and analyses haverendered parts of the book obsolete. In order to keep pace withscientific discoveries and to maintain the competitive marketposition of The Human Lineage, a second edition isneeded.  Cartmill and Smith will undertake a thorough revisionof the book, adding new, updated text and illustrations and pruningand revising the existing material.