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Paleontology: A Brief History of Life by Ian Tattersall 9781599473420
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.23"Endlessly absorbing and informative. It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to this most important and fascinating field."-Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly... -
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall 9781137278302
Booksplease Price: $20.58Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for... -
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.09An enthralling exploration of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities.World history is... -
The Great Human Journey Volume 3: Around the World in 22 Million Days by Ian Tattersall
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.03Wallace and Darwin, the Museum Mice from the Halls of the American Museum of Natural History, are off on another adventure! It's amazing what you can find in a museum and how far you can travel in a... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of... -
A Natural History of Beer by Rob DeSalle
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture "Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a potent scientific brew. . . . A marvellous paean to... -
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan Lents
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.41Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting... -
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.08'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating... -
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols by Genevieve Von Petzinger
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language... -
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper 9781800810938
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.80A TLS BEST BOOK OF 2023 'A formidable work' Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A magnificent, moving survey'... -
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $21.87Biological races do not exist-and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain...