Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language like? How large were the first societies, and how warlike were they? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, and by what route did they leave? By eloquently solving these and numerous other mysteries, Wade offers nothing less than a uniquely complete retelling of a story that began 500 centuries ago.

• A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
• The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
• Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
• The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
• After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
• The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
• Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
• The Complete World of Human Evolution (Second Edition) (The Complete Series)
• Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
• Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (MacSci)