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Human Origins Books
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,392 ratings — published 2011
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,448 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-origins)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,721 ratings — published 2006
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,122 ratings — published 1991
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,317 ratings — published 2008
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind ― A Detective Story of Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,386 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,747 ratings — published 2001
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,895 ratings — published 1981
Escaping from Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.47 — 937 ratings — published
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,254 ratings — published 2017
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,120 ratings — published 2020
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,057 ratings — published 2007
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 3.89 — 710 ratings — published 2006
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,649 ratings — published 2002
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 3.99 — 755 ratings — published 2006
Upright: The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 29 ratings — published 2003
Journey to Civilization The Science of how we got here (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2013
Early Human History: From Hunter-Gatherers to the First Societies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.10 — 58 ratings — published
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,910 ratings — published 2022
Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.61 — 740 ratings — published 2011
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,098 ratings — published 2023
They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.81 — 159 ratings — published
The Taming of Fire: To understand humanity, one must track the evolution of the cognition by psychoanalyzing our predecessor's progressive relations with FIRE, and those weren’t just instrumental (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.93 — 15 ratings — published
The Gift of Stones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,093 ratings — published 1988
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.94 — 490 ratings — published 2017
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,337 ratings — published 2022
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,908 ratings — published 2019
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,815 ratings — published 2018
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,270 ratings — published 2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,059 ratings — published 2016
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,361 ratings — published 2015
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,495 ratings — published 2008
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,118 ratings — published 1982
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,489 ratings — published 2005
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.17 — 701 ratings — published 1996
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,153 ratings — published 2023
The Dawn of Human Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.76 — 217 ratings — published 2002
The Origin of Our Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 295 ratings — published
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.06 — 685 ratings — published 2020
Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,647 ratings — published 2016
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,903 ratings — published 2009
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,397 ratings — published 2022
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Young Adult)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,046 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,582 ratings — published 2003
Human Universe: A Sunday Times Bestseller of Popular Science, Astronomy, and the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,593 ratings — published 2014
Almost like Us:Peoples of the Stone Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting (New Scientist Instant Expert)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.29 — 194 ratings — published
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,205 ratings — published 2006
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,046 ratings — published 1993
“I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.”
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
― We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
“It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades.”
― Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
― Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
