The Human Story: Where We Come From & How We Evolved

by Charles Lockwood

Anthropology professor Charles Lockwood tells the amazing story of human evolution in a concise and compelling introduction to all our ancestors and extinct relatives. He draws on the explosion of discoveries made over the past 20 years to demystify the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to our origins, and describes the main sites, individual fossils, key scientific breakthroughs, and latest research that have fed our knowledge. With the help of a rich assortment of photographs, reconstructions, and maps, Lockwood takes us from the earliest hominins, who date back six or seven million years ago, to contemporary homo sapiens, providing the basic facts about each what it looked like, what it ate, how and when it lives, and how we know this information.
Created in association with London’s Natural History Museum, this is a truly readable, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and user-friendly summary of the evidence as it stands today.

Genres: Science, Evolution, Nonfiction, Anthropology

111 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

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Charles Lockwood was Lecturer in Human Evolution in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. He was an expert on early hominid taxonomy and evolutionary relationships.

Reviews

[Celina Marscham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really eye opening and very educational

[Maria Thermann · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very informative, entertaining and easy to read account of human evolution. Photographs of finds, illustrations and compelling new research not just demystify some old wives' tales and ingrained misconceptions about the origins of mankind, they also show us for what we are...human...and ape.

Charles Lockwood manages to truly bring our ancestors to life, not just as a biological or historical specimen but as people who ate, slept, fell in love and tried out new-fangled ideas like making fire. It's a great read, not just for me in my research for a sci-fi novel I'm writing but for anyone who's interested in learning more about the origins of mankind and if there's hope for us, yet, to evolve into something a bit more decent.