The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory

From the 3.5 million-year-old Lucy-one of our most famous early ancestors-to the rise of Homo sapiens and the spread of our species throughout the globe, this guide explores everything curious readers want to know about prehistory.

Greg Laden, Ph.D., teaches human evolution and paleoarcheology as an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Laden has worked at many field sites in Africa researching fossil evidence of early human existence, and helped maintain human prehistory collections at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard. He and his work have been featured in the New York Times and on local television networks in the Boston area.