Ian Tattersall: opere
- 1982 The Myths of Human Evolution, Columbia University Press, [rif.]
- Miti dell'evoluzione umana, Bollati Boringhieri, 1984
- 1988 Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, Garland Publishing, New York
- a cura di: id., E. Delson , J.A. Van Couvering
- 1993 The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution, Prentice-Hall, New York
- 1995 The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution, Oxford University Press, New York
- 1995 The Last Neanderthal: The Origin, Success and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relative, Macmillan, New York
- 1998 Becoming Human, [rif.] [rif.1] [rif.2] [rif.3]
- 1998 Becoming Human, Evolution and Human Uniqueness, Harcourt Brace, New York, [rif.] [rif.1]
- Il cammino dell'uomo. Perché siamo diversi dagli altri animali, Garzanti, 1998
- 2002 The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human, Harcourt, New York, [rif.] [rif.1]
- La scimmia allo specchio, Molteni, Roma, 2003
- 2008 The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, [rif.]
- 2012 Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, [rif.]
- I signori del pianeta. La ricerca delle origini dell'uomo, Codice, Torino, 2013
- 2015 Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Springer, Berlin, [rif.]