Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins

carl zimmer

From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees be included as a human species? Was it the physical difficulty of human childbirth that encouraged the development of social groups in early human species? Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Why did humans supplant Neanderthals in the end? In answering such questions, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins sheds new light on one of the most important questions of all: What makes us human?

Genres sciencenonfictionevolutionhistorybiologyanthropologynatural historyscience naturegeneticsprehistory

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2005

This edition

Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Published: February 6, 2007 by Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061196676
ASIN: 0061196673
Language: English

About the author

carl zimmer

Carl Zimmer is a columnist for the New York Times and the author of 15 books about science. His latest book is Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Visit him at carlzimmer.com.