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A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
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Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo sapiens really are.
Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a new hominid group—the Denisovans—and confirmed that crossbreeding with them (and Neanderthals) made Homo sapiens who w...