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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our AncestorsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A narrative of the evolution of humans, their spread from Africa to the rest of the world, and the influence of the last ice age on human social development.
author: Nicholas Wade |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2004 edition, edited by Dava Sobel, of this annual compliation of essays by the best of American science writers. Topics include space flight, physics, medicine and organ transplants, dark matter,...
author: Dava Sobel, editor & Jesse Cohen series editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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Bone Detectives - How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the DeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Fascinating book about forensic anthropologists and what they can learn from bones about how the person died, whether it was a male or female, how old the person was, and even height and weight. Poli...
author: Donna M. Jackson |
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First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Chronicle of the "first contact" experience of Australian explorer Michael Leahy who, in 1930, went looking for gold in Papua New Guinea and found a civilization of almost 1 million people who had ha...
author: Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson |
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From Lucy to LanguageClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An exploration of human origins; our development from the apes that began standing upright between 6 and 7 million years ago; and the significant adaptive advantage that led to our success as the only...
author: Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar |
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a comprehensive treatise that brings together ecology, botany, anthropology, medicine and evolution. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, 1998. Also availab...
author: Jared Diamond |
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Human Story - Our Evolution From Prehistoric Ancestors to TodayClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Covering the six million years since our earliest ancestors (the first apes that walked upright) emerged, paleobiologist Christopher Sloan takes the reader on a scientific trek through human prehistor...
author: Christopher Sloan |
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Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and HumansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A journey back 45 million years into our evolutionary roots and a reconstruction of humans' extended family tree.
author: Chris Beard |
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Little People and a Lost World - An Anthropological MysteryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In 2003 on Flores Island in Indonesia, archaeologists working in a cave uncovered an extremely small humanlike skeleton. Research showed that it wasn't the skeleton of a child, but rather of a 30-yea...
author: Linda Goldenberg |
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Lucy Long Ago - Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came FromClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Follows the discovery in 1974 of skeletal bones of a human ancestor (hominid) in Ethiopia, and what has been learned since then about ?Lucy.? Heavily illustrated with photos and diagrams, and a text ...
author: Catherine Thimmesh |
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Lucy: The Beginnings of HumankindClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The dramatic discovery of our oldest human ancestor - and the controversial change it makes in our view of human origins.
author: Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey |
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Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our GenesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Olson describes the African origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. In his geneology of humanity, he shows how groups of people differ and yet are the same, ...
author: Steve Olson |
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Outside and Inside MummiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Reveals what scientists using cutting-edge technology to examine mummies are learning. Color photographs throughout.
author: Sandra Markle |
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Painters of the CavesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings. Discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times. Many co...
author: Patricia Lauber |
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and CulturesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating exploration of handedness in nature, humans and cultures; its origin and significance. Includes historical accounts and anecdotes and such musings as why mirrors reflect left-right but n...
author: Chris McManus |
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Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian TropicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Documents the author's adventure through southeast Asia to locate and study the golden moon bear, and talk with the scientists who study it, and the people who profit from it.
Includes eight pages of...
author: Sy Montgomery |
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Silent Witness - How Forensic Anthropology is Used to Solve the World's Toughest CrimesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A detailed look at how forensic anthropology is used to identify human remains, as well as its role in solving crimes. Twenty-nine case studies are used to illuminate how forensic anthropologists gat...
author: Roxana Ferllini |
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So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and EventsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A discussion of the impact of environment on the development of humans. Dubos asks, are we becoming dehumanized by the conditions in which we live?
author: René Dubos |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2005Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2005 edition of the annual series. Includes essays on NASA and space expoloration, psychology, global warming, medicine and medical research, and a computer hacker.
author: Jonathan Weiner, editor & Tim Folger series editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2004Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2004 edition, edited by Dava Sobel, of this annual compliation of essays by the best of American science writers. Topics include space flight, physics, medicine and organ transplants, dark matter,...
author: Dava Sobel, editor & Jesse Cohen series editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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The Bone Detectives - How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the DeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Fascinating book about forensic anthropologists and what they can learn from bones about how the person died, whether it was a male or female, how old the person was, and even height and weight. Poli...
author: Donna M. Jackson |
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The Human Story - Our Evolution From Prehistoric Ancestors to TodayClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Covering the six million years since our earliest ancestors (the first apes that walked upright) emerged, paleobiologist Christopher Sloan takes the reader on a scientific trek through human prehistor...
author: Christopher Sloan |
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The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and HumansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A journey back 45 million years into our evolutionary roots and a reconstruction of humans' extended family tree.
author: Chris Beard |
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human OriginsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A firsthand account of Walker's discovery of the best specimen of Homo erectus, the evolutionary link between primates and humans, an his investigation of the nature of the species.
author: Alan Walker & Pat Shipman |
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What on Earth Happened? The Complete Story of the Planet, Life, and People from the Big Bang to the Present DayClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Covering 13.7 billion years in 400 pages, this book combines the history of earth science and the history of human civilization and shows the complex interconnectedness of all things, from ecosystems,...
author: Christopher Lloyd |
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Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human OriginsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A firsthand account of Walker's discovery of the best specimen of Homo erectus, the evolutionary link between primates and humans, an his investigation of the nature of the species.
author: Alan Walker & Pat Shipman |
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