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Best books to learn Human origins & evolution, in order

This subject is easy to get wrong because it's crowded with myth and outdated claims, so grounding in the mechanism comes first. Read a strong overview of natural selection and deep time, then the fossil and hominin evidence, then the debates over migration and what makes us human—reading the scientists who argue, since the frontier is genuinely contested.

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