Paleoanthropology


Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
269 books — 110 voters
The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. HardingThe Smart Neanderthal by Clive FinlaysonThe Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland BarberEurope Between the Oceans by Barry CunliffeTime Song by Julia Blackburn
Prehistoric Europe
97 books — 5 voters

Understanding and improving health and well-being in contemporary populations cannot be accomplished through the narrow lens of the present.
Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

Abhijit Naskar
The story of human evolution is the story of bones.
Abhijit Naskar, Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness

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