We have a good idea what daily life was like 100 years ago, and...
We have a somewhat good idea of what life was like 1000 years ago.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT SPAN OF TIME BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY that comprises 97% of human history, the vast majority of time during which humans have lived, for which there is no recorded history. For those thousands of millenia, only the DNA record, fossilized bones, and the remnants left by our ancestors provide clues for how we lived.
WHAT KINDS OF DRAMAS played out during those prehistoric times?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CLAN 71,000 YEARS AGO, during the "bottleneck" when the dwindling numbers of humans would have put us in the endangered species category?
WHAT WERE THOSE EARLY HUMANS, THE AUSTRALOPITHECINES, DOING that day they left those footprints in volcanic ash, that would one day be discovered recently by Dr. Mary Leakey?
HOW DID EARLY HOMO SAPIENS evolve to cooperate in a mamouth hunt?
Ambitious overview of human evolution...
--Publishers Weekly
Now you can order the Hardcover Edition of Origins: Tales of Human Evolution from Amazon, and soon it will be available from BarnesandNoble.com and in selected bookstores.
Gerri Leen, gerrileen, Lezli Robyn, Z.S. Adani, alaneer, Max Habilis, Camille Alexa, camillealexa, Jenny Blackford, jennyblackford, and Mike Resnick give us glimpses into the lives of our distant ancestors...snapshots of brief moments in a span of 3,500,000 years.
Hadley Rille Books