The Origins of Man: An Illustrated History of Human Evolution

The Origins of Man: An Illustrated History of Human Evolution by Palmer, Douglas. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781845371654.

The origins of humankind lie in Africa, where fossil evidence reaches back over six million years to a time when we shared a common ancestor with the chimpanzees. We are now the only remaining human species alive on Earth, and there are over six billion of us. The Origins of Man tells the story of how we evolved from our ape ancestors to become the most successful creature on the planet.