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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 — 1,319,187 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 — 6,325 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 — 4,709 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 — 29,028 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 — 29,781 ratings — published 2008
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,719 ratings — published 2001
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,891 ratings — published 1981
Escaping from Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.47 — 921 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 — 2,220 ratings — published 2017
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,330 ratings — published 2020
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,984 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 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 3.88 — 709 ratings — published 2006
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,636 ratings — published 2002
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 750 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
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 4.45 — 7,574 ratings — published 2022
Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.62 — 720 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 — 18,255 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 — 156 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 3.83 — 1,081 ratings — published 1988
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.95 — 485 ratings — published 2017
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,282 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 — 5,844 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 — 1,769 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 — 5,144 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 — 16,894 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 — 2,294 ratings — published 2015
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,371 ratings — published 2008
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,089 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 — 4,464 ratings — published 2005
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.17 — 699 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 — 5,728 ratings — published 2023
The Dawn of Human Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.75 — 215 ratings — published 2002
The Origin of Our Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.00 — 294 ratings — published
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.07 — 677 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 — 1,631 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 — 4,874 ratings — published 2009
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,363 ratings — published 2022
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Young Adult)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,016 ratings — published 2003
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,868 ratings — published 2003
Human Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,464 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 — 189 ratings — published
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,578 ratings — published 2006
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,039 ratings — published 1993
The Divine Blueprint: Temples, Power Places, and the Global Plan to Shape the Human Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 4.65 — 68 ratings — published 2010
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-origins)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,019 ratings — published 2006
“Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as almost exclusively rational and intellectual, and set the human at a distance from the animal.”
― Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
― Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
“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
