Lucy: the beginnings of humankind

9 best books like Lucy: the beginnings of humankind (Donald C. Johanson): The Descent of Woman, At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, The Mismeasure of Man, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, Dinosaur in a Haystack, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

The Descent of Woman

Author	Elaine Morgan
ISBN	0285627007

The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition...

At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea

Author	Carl Zimmer
ISBN	0684856239

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 Mismeasure of Man

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0393314251

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

Author	Richard Dawkins
ISBN	0618485392

The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.

Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits...

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Author

Richard Dawkins

The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0060845503

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 Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction

Author	Robert T. Bakker
ISBN	0806522607

This groundbreaking book reveals that, far from being sluggish reptiles, dinosaurs were actually agile, fast, warm-blooded, and intelligent. The author explodes the old orthodoxies and gives us a convincing picture of how dinosaurs hunted, fed, mated, fought and died.Containing over 200 detailed...

Dinosaur in a Haystack

Author	Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN	0517888246

Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey...

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Author

Richard Fortey

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...