"The author combines biological and humanistic perspectives to provide a synthesis of the latest palaeo-anthropological and biological research on early human origins and evolution, from the split with the apes some six million years ago to the rise of early modern humans. He fo…
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"The author combines biological and humanistic perspectives to provide a synthesis of the latest palaeo-anthropological and biological research on early human origins and evolution, from the split with the apes some six million years ago to the rise of early modern humans. He fo…
"The author combines biological and humanistic perspectives to provide a synthesis of the latest palaeo-anthropological and biological research on early human origins and evolution, from the split with the apes some six million years ago to the rise of early modern humans. He fo…
Around 60,000 years ago, a man, genetically identical to us, lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern…
"In the fall of 1971, Jon Kalb, a young geologist from Texas, was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to explore Ethiopia's forbidding Afar Depression, long considered a kind of hell on earth." "Although it was geology that initially drew Kalb to the region,…