Subject archive: anthropology

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of anthropology published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
  2. Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
  3. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  4. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us
  5. Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
  6. Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
  7. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
  8. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
  9. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
  10. The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human Origins
  11. Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins
  12. Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
  13. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
  14. The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
  15. The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution
  16. The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
  17. Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
  18. Superior: The Return of Race Science
  19. The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
  20. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
  21. When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
  22. The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
  23. Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
  24. The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
  25. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
  26. Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins