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
Evolution
Mapping Human History
After the Ice
Neandertal Enigma
Origins Reconsidered
Chimpanzee Politics
Becoming Human
The Universe Within
Descent of Woman
The Human Career
Seven Daughters of Eve
The Descent of Man
Our Inner Ape
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
The Third Chimpanzee
The Prehistory of the Mind
Darwin's Ghosts
Before the Dawn
The Old Way
Masters of the Planet
The Singing Neanderthals
The Dawn of Human Culture
The Cave Painters
The Social Life of DNA