Human Paleontology

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    • The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
    • By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 840 ratings
    • A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century....

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    • The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
    • By: Lydia Pyne
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today....

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    • The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
    • By: Ann Gibbons
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.9 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • By: Richard L. Currier
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • In Search of Humanity
    • By: G. Weldon Tucker
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-25
    • Language: English
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    • Ethiopia is a mixed environment for exploration... and survival. It has had its grand moments, tied in with Jewish history, temples, world wide ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Luke Dumas
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.8 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel....

    $20.24 or free with 30-day trial

    • A New Understanding of the Human Creature
    • By: Ludovic Slimak
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A thought-provoking adventure story, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history-and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn.

    $13.75 or free with 30-day trial

    • Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Martin Dew
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind....

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    • Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
    • By: Madelaine Böhme
    • Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....

    $14.78 or free with 30-day trial

    • The History of the Extinct Archaic Humans Who Spread Across Asia During the Paleolithic Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • As soon as man discovered writing, he began engaging in historiography (historical writing and philosophy), but paleoanthropology only really began in the late 1800s....

    $5.42 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
    • By: Pat Shipman
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe....

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    • A Brief History of Life
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings....

    $15.60 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
    • By: Tom Higham
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....

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    • And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution....

    $15.47 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bernard Wood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity....

    $13.99 or free with 30-day trial

    • Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
    • By: Lydia V. Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time - and as a cultural idea....

    $30.08 or free with 30-day trial