Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Lecture 18: Hominines

Brown, Big History, chap. 3.

Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 6.

Fagan, People of the Earth, chap. 2.

Johanson and Edey, Lucy.

Jones, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.

Lewin, Human Evolution.

1. What features do humans share with other primates?


2. Was Louis Leakey wrong to regard Homo habilis as humans?

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading

Questions to Consider