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A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human.' Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids deftly blends personal experience with a journalist's eye for ...
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An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival.
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The riveting story of the intrepid women anthropologists who redefined race, sex, gender and normality in the early twentieth century.
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