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From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees be included as a human species? Was it the physical difficulty of human childbirth that encouraged the development of social groups in early human species? Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Why did humans supplant...

From ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara Desert to the analysis of DNA by robots at the National Human Genome Research Institute in suburban Maryland, Zimmer weaves together the varied clues about our human ancestry in an entertaining, informative and highly readable volume that will appeal to expert and general reader alike.

New - New discoveries are changing our understanding of human origins almost daily. What does the new knowledge about our species mean? Science writer Carl Zimmer tackles that question and more in this illuminating journey through our ancestry, beginning sixty-five million years ago with the first primates and ending today, as we enter a new phase of evolution. Along the way, he re-examines the major steps in human evolution, as hominids began to stand upright, fashion tolls and develop consciou