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 An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine In this follow-up book to A Natur...

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As t...

Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book pres...

A celebration of beerits science, its history, and its impact on human culture  Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a pote...

Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human sp...

In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of human exceptionalism in paleoanthropology has distorted th...

An enthralling exploration of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to f...

Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been ...

It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take...

What evolutionary process could have resulted in the unique and amazing human brain? New research by neuroscientists, paleontologists, and others r...

A celebration of beerits science, its history, and its impact on human culture  Curatorial eminences Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall serve up a pote...