 | Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction by Milford Wolpoff
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $11.88 The best historical introduction to the modern human origins problem.
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 | Reflections Of Our Past: How Human History Is Revealed In Our Genes by John Relethford
Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $7.19 The best book about how genetics is generating insights about human prehistory.
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 | The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.18 A reporter's view of the personalities trying to find the earliest hominids and the problems they face (usually with each other).
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 | Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer
Buy used from: $2.74 A fun trip through the world of 17th century science and its attempts to understand the brain.
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 | First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood
Buy new: $34.20 / Used from: $23.97 A source-rich comparison of the Neolithic transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in different regions of the world.
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 | Mathematical Population Genetics by Warren J. Ewens
Buy new: $76.45 / Used from: $56.81 I can't live without this book. What more can I say?
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 | Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna by Alan Turner
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $14.52 Buy this book for the reconstructions of the hominids' ancient competitors and predators.
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 | What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect by James R. Flynn
Buy new: $19.50 / Used from: $1.69 An expert's description of why intelligence is (or isn't) important and how it has been changing.
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 | From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded by Donald Johanson
Buy used from: $26.00 David Brill's pictures are amazing, and this will give you a real look at hominid fossils.
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 | The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.00 Insights on the origins of human intelligence, from an expert in animal brain functioning.
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 | The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms by Connie Barlow
Buy new: $11.59 / Used from: $4.95 A little repetitive, but an interesting introduction to ecological thinking in evolution, relevant to conservation.
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 | Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: $27.78 / Used from: $5.00 A classic look through the origins of developmental and evolutionary science.
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 | The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of <i>Proconsul</i> by Alan Walker
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $7.82 Not a bad read, if you're interested in Miocene apes.
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 | Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.55 A sometimes hilarious description of science's attempts to communicate with ghosts, weigh souls, and find reincarnated children.
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 | Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.67 A good introduction to the science of anthropological genetics, tracing ancient migrations, and so on.
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 | On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Harvard Paperbacks) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $6.86 Why not read the original?
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 | The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.48 If I had a penny for everyone who claimed to have read this book and actually hadn't...
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 | The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Darwin
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $5.25 Well, would you have made as much from this trip?
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 | The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher
Buy new: $83.99 / Used from: $62.10 The second chapter of this book holds many secrets that remain unplumbed.
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 | The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.10 If I needed to tell a teenager or college student what was important and interesting about evolution, I would give them this book.
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 | Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.13 This is a great book and the essential introduction to evo-devo.
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