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The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era
Over the course of five ...
A beautiful and informative history of life on our planet.
It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on ...
"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLE
Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?
An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written ...
The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters
50,000 years ago, we were not the only species ...
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in ...
From the authors of New York Timesbestseller The Genius of Dogscomes a new popular science book about how 'friendliness' is in fact the key factor ...
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles ...
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists ...
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the ...
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows ...
"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLE Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message? An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written ...
"The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth ...
