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…
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1. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
By: Dimitra Papagianni , Michael A. Morse
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new disc… read more
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2. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
By: Svante Pääbo
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the… read more
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3. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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4. 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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5. 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
6. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
7. Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
By: David Farley
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, … read more
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8. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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
15. 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
16. 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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17. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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18. The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
By: Jo Marchant
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2020 NPR A Best Book of 2020 The Economist A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Smit… read more
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19. 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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