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Human Origins in Africa Books

A selection of recommended books about Human Origins in Africa.
In the Footsteps of Eve by Berger Hilton-Barber
On the advice of two grand masters of paleoanthropology, Don Johanson and Richard Leakey, Lee Berger decided that South Africa was the place to go to study the origins of humankind. It was a chance to work with actual fossils since both Ethiopia and Kenya were already bursting with paleontologists.

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