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Ancestral Passions, The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
• Virginia Morell
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A biography of the Leakey family, documenting their discoveries and their vast contributions to the field of paleontology. The Leakeys have been instrumental in tracing human origins to East Africa.
(EAF76, $38.95)
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Becoming Human, Evolution and Human Uniqueness
• Ian Tattersall
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A wide-ranging, thought-provoking tour of human origins and culture from the point of view of anthropology.
(NAT45, $14.00)
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Bones of Contention, Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
• Roger Lewin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Lewin, a science writer who has worked with Richard Leakey, offers an engaging account of the issues, debates and personalities in paleoanthropology.
(ATP05, $27.50)
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Evolution, The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
• Edward Larson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A clearheaded, engrossing brief history of ideas about evolution from the 18th century to the present by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
(NAT64, $14.95)
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Extinct Humans
• Ian Tattersall
• Jeffrey Schwartz
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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An illustrated overview of the origin of our species, rewarding for both the scholar and interested general reader, which explores the history of our species in this masterly synthesis of archaeological discovery.
(NAT46, $30.00)
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From Lucy to Language
• Donald Johanson
• Blake Edgar
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A strikingly illustrated survey of human evolution, featuring 200 stunning color photographs of significant hominid fossils.
(EAF85, $65.00)
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The Human Career, Human Biological and Cultural Origins
• Richard G. Klein
• REFERENCE
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An overview of human evolution intended as a sourcebook and text for undergraduate courses in paleoanthrolopology.
(AFR74, $55.00)
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Human Origins, What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves
• Rob Desalle
• Ian Tattersall
• SCIENCE
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The companion book by the co-curators of the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
(ATP19, $29.95)
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In the Footsteps of Eve, The Mystery of Human Origins
• Lee R. Berger
• SCIENCE
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Berger challenges the orthodoxy on a critical point of debate in the field of paleoanthropology.
(ATP10, $14.00)
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Investigating Olduvai, Archaeology of Human Origins
• Jeanne Septis
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A CD-Rom created for University students to explore the FLK-Zinj fossil site at Olduvai, with separate sections for data, analysis and investigation.
(EAF90, $39.95)
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The Last Human, A Guide to Twenty Species of Extinct Humans
• Ian Tattersall
• Kenneth Mowbray
• Esteban Sarmiento
• G.J. Sawyer
• Victor Deak
• Donald Johanson
• Meave Leakey
• NATURAL HISTORY
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This illustrated overview of human ancestry from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens is published as a companion to the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
(ATP18, $45.00)
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Lucy's Legacy, Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
• Alison Jolly
• SCIENCE
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A well-informed, popular account of what makes us human.
(AFR104, $18.95)
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Lucy, The Beginnings of Humankind
• Maitland Armstrong Edey
• Donald Johanson
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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The original, influential account of the thrilling discovery of Lucy in 1974 and the impact of the discovery on ideas about human evolution.
(ATP06, $17.00)
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The Monkey in the Mirror, Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
• Ian Tattersall
• SCIENCE
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A lively, literate collection of essays on evolution, evolutionary change and the diversity of hominids.
(ATP11, $14.00)
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No Bone Unturned, The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons
• Jeff Benedict
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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A lively account of the controversy surrounding Kennewick Man.
(SCI73, $13.95)
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Origins Reconsidered, In Search of What Makes Us Human
• Richard Leakey
• Roger Lewin
• SCIENCE
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A personal account of hominid evolution, looking back at the evidence and conclusions from the original 1977 book "Origins," augmented with a thoughtful consideration of what makes us human.
(ATP07, $17.95)
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Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe
• Barry W Cunliffe
• HISTORY
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Dozens of experts contributed essays to this illustrated account of the sweep of early human history in Europe from the Paleolithic to the fall of the Roman Empire, featuring 300 well-integrated maps, photographs and site plans.
(EUR32, $31.95)
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
• Peter Matthiessen
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This classic portrait of East Africa, enthralling in its detail on nature and daily life, takes in the Maasai, Ngorongoro, the Kenyan highlands and Mathiessen's field trips, safaris and adventures in the Serengeti.
(EAF27, $17.00)
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The Wisdom of the Bones, In Search of Human Origins
• Alan Walker
• Pat Shipman
• SCIENCE
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A dramatic account of the discovery, in 1984, and significance of a remarkably intact skeleton of Homo erectus in northern Kenya.
(ATP09, $15.00)
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The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE
• Ian Tattersall
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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In this lively and readable introduction, Tattersall thoroughly examines both the fossil and archeological records to trace human evolution from the beginnings of the family Hominidae, through the emergence of Homo sapiens, to the Agricultural Revolution.
(WLD133, $60.00)
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