Nonfiction Resources

This project is based on a huge variety of sources, from textbooks to journal articles and everything in between. For those interested in learning more about the science of paleoanthropology, debates in the field, and the history of the subject, check out some of the books or blogs below. This list is by no means comprehensive—new work is being published all the time. But this should give a good general overview. 

BOOKS

General Overview of Paleoanthropology

Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans On Earth, Chris Stringer

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution, Ian Tattersall

Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates our Evolving Species, Sang-Hee Lee

The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene, Lydia Pyne and Stephen J. Pyne 

Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Fossils, Lydia Pyne

Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story, Lee Berger and John Hawks

Archaeology

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, Marilyn Johnson

Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature, Brian Switek

Genetics

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, David Reich 

Academic Books

The Science of Human Evolution: Getting It Right, John H. Langdon

Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures, Caleb Everett

Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna, Alan Turner and Mauricio Antón

Blogs

John Hawks' Weblog: Paleoanthropology, Genetics and Evolution

TrowelBlazers, dedicated to encouraging the participation and highlighting the achievements of women and underrepresented groups

Fossil History, by Paige Madison