What to Read After The first human
Readers who loved The first human by Ann Gibbons keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The first human is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The first human
The universe within
The Human Career
The Third Chimpanzee
The Old Way
Mapping human history
Neandertal Enigma
Origins reconsidered
Becoming human
Seven Daughters of Eve
The descent of man
Our Inner Ape
Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language
The Prehistory of the Mind
Darwin's ghosts
Before the Dawn
The singing neanderthals
After the Ice
Chimpanzee politics
Masters of the planet
The dawn of human culture
African Genesis
The 10,000 year explosion
The cave painters
T. rex and the crater of doom