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Discovering Our Distant Ancestors

Genetics and Human Evolution

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
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
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells

Our Nearest Relatives

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Frans de Waal
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal
The Origin Of Humankind
Richard Leakey
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki

Our Hominid Predecessors

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond

Additional Titles in This Section

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome H. Barkow et al.
Human Universals
Donald E. Brown
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Storza
Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research
G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet
Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
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: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
The Real Eve: Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa
Stephen Oppenheimer
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Neil Roughley, Ed.
Race and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the United States and the World
Raymond Scupin
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
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
Race and Human Evolution
Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham