Tom Higham’s The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins is an both an excellent overview, and detailed account (!) of some of the more recent work done in archeology and ancient genetics which has fundamentally altered our view of human origins. We are, I believe, on the cusp of even more amazing discoveries about our early ancestors and hominid cousins. In the near future, the idea of completely separable “species” of the genus homo will lose all functional meaning.
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