Best books about early humans

Make Your Own List. Paleoanthropologist Tim White tells us about his work investigating the origins of homo sapiens and explains what a 4. I started to work there in the s and I have been working in different African countries ever since, from South Africa all the way up East Africa and then on into Jordan, largely in the Great Rift Valley that runs right through the eastern side of Africa. And for the last 30 years we have concentrated our efforts in Ethiopia, in a particular part known as the Afar Triangle. Then in the s our team was successful in finding a fossil skeleton over a million years older than Lucy that has taken us into uncharted territory in a temporal sense. And finding that came in little bits at a time. We started with an Ethiopian student who was here at Berkeley named Yohannes Haile-Selassie no relation to the emperor.

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The Mughal Empire? The Renaissance? Ancient Rome? The building of the pyramids? For readers with a love of history, romance, and adventure, Jean M. These are a few of the best novels taking us back to before the earliest stories of humankind were written.