Our Human Story

This book is an updated version of a previous book (COMPLETE WORLD OF HUMAN EVOLUTION CHRIS STRINGER & PETER ANDREWS THAMES & HUDSON 2012). If you want to know the latest research into human evolution, I recommend getting both books as many fossils have been discovered in the last 30 - 50 years. "Our Human Story" is very well written with many pictures and sidebars on things like techniques for dating fossils and tools, a very accessible book, easy to understand.

This book gives an excellent, concise summary of human evolution. It provides a brief overview of the various relevant species and what's known about them and their evolutionary relationship to Homo sapiens. The writing style is engaging and easy to read. It was just what I was looking for.

One of the best books I have in my library on human evolution. The book is made of quality materials with excellent photographs and diagrams. It is a comprehensive treatment of the subject that complements scientific dissertations of complex topics like genome structures and genetic mutations. EXCELLENT BOOK.

Very in-depth

This book has much more recent information about human origins than other books I have.

This was purchased as a gift for my boyfriend's mom, who is a teacher and requested some materials to help her with teaching "The History of Man" to her students. She absolutely loved it!

I needed a refresher on latest discoveries on Human evolution and this book did the job nicely. I went through it in one sitting.

Let me start off by saying that the information in this book is very good. It is a wonderful beginners guide to human evolution up to H. sapien. My disappointment comes from the condition of the book itself. I purchased it brand new but was upset to see the very obvious wear on the book. The package it arrived in included another book with no marks on it at all, and the package itself appeared pristine. All this leads me to believe this book was a a used copy thrown in with the new ones. Very unfortunate. Otherwise, it is a 5 star book!

This book is simple, straighforward and fairly comprehensive. It is good for catching up on human ancestry if one is embedded in another field.

The story of human evolution really needs an update from discoveries over the last 20 years. And this is the book to do it. Well written but it in a serious style which does not spoon feed its readers with meaningless analogies and metaphors. And not a single "!" so it lets the science speak for itself. All Science books should be this good!

The book received in bad condition. Corner is bent. Disappointed with the packing.

I myself have often had difficulties to explain to interested non-scientists the complex history of the evolution of humans. Beginning from the first hominins to todays Homo sapiens. Or at least what we know about it and the many dicoveries with the tools of genetics over the last decades. Chris has achieved what many authors writing on this subject have not accomplished - a clear presentation of the tortuous pathway that lead to us in the end!

This is a great book and the topic is among the most important to humanity. Where are we from? This paleoanthropologist is among the best in the world. No less than the leading expert at the Natural History Museum. Read this and you will never look at yourself in the mirror in the same way ever again! Hard to put down once you start. LO.