Human Evolution

Books mainly focused on a prehistorical human and anything from Hominidae family. Questions about homo sapiens origin and relation with primates.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Selfish Gene
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
A.R. Merrydew
“ The concept and subsequent development of these JEN2 successors to the old machines, was a story in its own right. It was also one marred with frustration, hidden agendas and ultimately punctuated with a sad human tragedy. ”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“ The Stephen Pinkers of the modern world have made us understand that the human senses of fairness, equity, and empathy, the fundaments of the moral code, do not in fact spring from organized religion or advanced culture but have roots in our very evolution as a social species. We are beings with brains that are endlessly taking stock of favors and slights, reciprocity and advantage. Morality did not emerge from religious teachings. Rather, religious teachings encoded a morality that sprang from ...more ”
― Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

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