The First Humans

New Horizons

The First Humans

The Search for our Origins

  1. Herbert Thomas
  2. Translated by Paul G. Bahn
  • ISBN 9780500300565
  • 17.70 x 12.50 cm
  • Paperback
  • 160pp
  • Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
  • First published 1995
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Who are we? Where did we come from? What makes us human?

The whole puzzle of our early life on earth is gradually being pieced together from fragments of bone, skulls and primitive tools dispersed throughout the world. The trail leads back nearly five million years.

Here is a history of human evolution that reveals the very latest finds and thinking – discoveries that are crucial in helping us to understand our past, our present and even our future.


See a selection of T&H books on Darwin and evolution.

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The Complete Ice Age
The Reign of the Dinosaurs
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
Inside the Neolithic Mind