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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins

10 best books like The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins (Alan C. Walker): I Am the Cheese, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Salt Creek, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga, The Neanderthal's Necklace: In Search of the First Thinkers, How to Think Like a Neandertal, Manassas, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins

I Am the Cheese
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0141300515
But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...

A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....
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...
Salt Creek
AuthorLucy Treloar
ISBN1743533195
1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area of Southern Australia, in pursuit of his dream to become a farmer.

Housed in a driftwood cabin, they try to make the best of their situation. The children roam the beautiful landscape of Salt Creek;...
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
AuthorIan Tattersall
Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led...
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
AuthorStephen L. Carter
From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nation’s past
 
Stephen L. Carter’s thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives...
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga
AuthorRobert Sobel
ISBN1853675040
For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered...
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...
How to Think Like a Neandertal
AuthorThomas Wynn
ISBN0199742820
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...
Manassas
AuthorJames Reasoner
ISBN1581820089
Manassas is the first book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War. The Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia - Abigail, a widow, and her four sons (Will, Mac, Titus, and Henry) and daughter (Cordelia) - work a good-sized, self-sufficient farm. The Brannons do not own slaves, but...
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 Counter-Creationism Handbook
AuthorMark Isaak
ISBN0520249267
Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about the science that sound powerful and convincing. And many people who support the teaching of evolution—students, teachers, parents, administrators—do not have the background to respond. They know that scientists...
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
AuthorIan Tattersall
ISBN0156006537
In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors, and the significance of our knowledge. A worldwide tour of discovery, Tattersall takes the reader from 30,000-year-old cave paintings...
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...
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