Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
By: Kermit Pattison
4.13
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ard…
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1. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
By: Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolu… read more
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2. Lucy: the beginnings of humankind
By: Maitland A. Edey , None
3.67
Format: 220 pages,
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3. And the Sea Will Tell
By: Vincent Bugliosi , Bruce Henderson
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd … read more
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4. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
5. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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6. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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9. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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10. For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
By: Sasha Sagan
4.10
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
"What is the meaning of life? Sagan finds its meaning everywhere--with her family, around the world… read more
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"Every loss you withstand in your life reopens all the others."-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Every single one of us appears seemingly from nowhere and then, eventually, returns to nowhere. We are conceived, we grow, and we die, but what happens beyond that is a great, haunting mystery. We gr…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"My parents taught me that the provable, tangible, verifiable things were sacred, that sometimes the most astonishing ideas are clearly profound, but when they get labeled as "facts", we lose sight of…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. This is the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deem…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
11. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
By: Kermit Pattison
4.13
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ard… read more
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12. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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13. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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14. Paleontology: An Illustrated History
By: David Bainbridge
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today Humans have b… read more
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"Peut-être y a-t-il dans l'étude du vieux et des morts quelque chose qui maintient jeune et vivant."-David Bainbridge, Paleontology: An Illustrated History
15. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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16. The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
By: Tom Higham
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris… read more
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17. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
18. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
By: Jeremy Desilva
4.33
Format: 352 pages, ebook
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more
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"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
19. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
By: Madelaine Böhme
4.16
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbrea… read more
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20. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
By: Ludovic Slimak
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more
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21. La Santa Compaña (Gonzalo de Berceo, #2)
By: Lorenzo G. Acebedo
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Gonzalo de Berceo ha llegado a Santiago de Compostela para participar, como tantos otros peregrinos… read more
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