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Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness

8 best books like Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness (Ian Tattersall): At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers, The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins, The Dawn of Human Culture, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
AuthorCarl Zimmer
ISBN0684856239
Everybody Out of the Pond
At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is...
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0674006135
The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision.

With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0060845503
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers
AuthorJuan Luis Arsuaga
ISBN1568581874
Neanderthals are at the center of this compelling narrative by Europe's leading anthropologist, not because they were our ancestors but because they were not. Members of a parallel humanity that evolved in Europe for hundreds of thousands of years, they were in direct competition with Cro-Magnons...
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
AuthorAlan C. Walker
ISBN0679747834
"Fascinating. . . .  As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer

In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus,...
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins
AuthorJames Shreeve
ISBN0380728818
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
The Dawn of Human Culture
AuthorRichard G. Klein
ISBN0471252522
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human counsciousness

The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this unsolved mystery. Author Richard...
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0307401960
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence.

For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001-that...
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