Top 5 Books for getting into bioanthropology.

1. Seven Skeletons by Lydia Pyne

This is a great introductory book on famous paleoanthropology finds that have made certain finds more famous than others. as well as their cultural value to us as a society.

2. The Origins of Humankind by Stephan Tomkins

This book has a great introduction to evolutionary principals as well an introduction to the primate family tree. This book also great definitions for what anyone wanting to get into the scientific lingo of evolutionary anthropology or biology.

3. Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, infants and the origins of language by Dean Falk

This book is an interesting read for anyone wanting to know why humans are the only primate with such a complex language and how mother and infant bonds throughout the primates may have been the trigger for language. This book also talks about the importance of gestures and how they are just a important, possibly more, in our language filled world.

4. Almost Human by Lee Berger

This awesome book talks about one the latest discoveries in paleoanthropology. Homo naledi, and the journey of retrieving the fossils from the Dinaledi chamber in The Cradle of Humankind (South Africa).

5. Origins Reconsidered by Richard Leakey

This book is told by Richard Leakey and his important findings made in West Turkana Africa when finding Turkana Boy the famous African Homo erectus skeleton. This book helps those who do not study paleoanthropology understand why funding these projects is so important for us modern humans today.