The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

Tom Higham

The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-bre...