Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
7 best books like Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Ian Tattersall): At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea, Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, How to Think Like a Neandertal, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, The Dawn of Human Culture
| 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...
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
| Author | Lars Brownworth |
| ISBN | 0307407950 |
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for...
| Author | Dimitra Papagianni |
| ISBN | 0500292043 |
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in...
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | Thomas Wynn |
| ISBN | 0199742820 |
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick...
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
| Author | Neil Shubin |
| ISBN | 0307378438 |
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...
| Author | Richard G. Klein |
| ISBN | 0471252522 |
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...
