Early man books

Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature...  Read More >>

Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity...  Read More >>

From emails to social media, from instant messaging to political memes, the way we produce and transmit culture...  Read More >>

This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future How...  Read More >>

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Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Human Origins is an accessible and authoritative introduction to paleoanthropology...  Read More >>

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A novel that explores in depth the three approaches as to the origin of humankind and the unexpected and surprising...  Read More >>

Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations....  Read More >>

Evidence that Neanderthals caught birds and used their feathers for decoration, along with recent discoveries of...  Read More >>

"The subject of the present volume, in essence is the hand and hand's extensions. We cannot insist too strongly...  Read More >>

What drove the evolution of humans, with our uniquely big brains? The Cradle of Humanity presents fascinating and...  Read More >>

Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is...  Read More >>

Readers will appreciate how hunter-gatherer societies have changed through time in ways that actively resist the...  Read More >>

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet...  Read More >>

"National Book Critics Circle Award--2017 Nonfiction Finalist ""Nothing less than a tour de force--a heady amalgam...  Read More >>

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This volume presents the lithic assemblage from Howburn in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, at present the oldest prehistoric...  Read More >>

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the...  Read More >>

Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes and documents the largest collection...  Read More >>

The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to...  Read More >>

The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula has always been coarse-grained compared to...  Read More >>

The book describes a 21st century journey following the direction taken by anatomically modern humans who left the...  Read More >>

Focussing on the abundant Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Salento region of Southern Italy, this book analyses...  Read More >>

Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates...  Read More >>