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Discovering Our Distant Ancestors

Genetics and Human Evolution

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome H. Barkow et al.
How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Storza
Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution
Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich
Race and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the United States and the World
Raymond Scupin
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells
Race and Human Evolution
Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari

Our Nearest Relatives

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Frans de Waal
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans de Waal
The Origin Of Humankind
Richard Leakey
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki
The Gap
Thomas Suddendorf
BOOK REPORT

Our Hominid Predecessors

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
The Real Eve: Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa
Stephen Oppenheimer
Neanderthal Man
Svante Pääbo
BOOK REPORT
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
Before the Dawn
Nicholas Wade
BOOK REPORT

Additional Titles in This Section

Human Universals
Donald E. Brown.
Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research
G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet.
The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould.
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Richard G. Klein.
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson & Melvin Ember.
Social
Matthew D. Lieberman.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker.
Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Neil Roughley, Ed..
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Nicholas Wade.
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil.
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham.