Human Evolution

Books mainly focused on a prehistorical human and anything from Hominidae family. Questions about homo sapiens origin and relation with primates.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Selfish Gene
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Brian Van Norman
Perhaps the most chaotic of Divisions Ke Hui Feng 第一 Ψ visited was Recycling. First, it was mammoth, so big most of her tour was spent aboard a drone. Thousands of Dazhong used the 401 thoroughfares from both east and west, the 427 from the south and the 400 from the north to bring their loads of recyclables from the MASS to the enormous MEG Recycling Centre. The roadways might be in ruins outside the MEG boundaries, jagged fragments of pavement between cavernous potholes and trails made by trad ...more
Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

Jack London
we have much to blush for in the acts of our ancestors… We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.
Jack London, The Iron Heel

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