Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins

There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors. Our paths ran beside each other - and potentially even crossed at times - but while ours led us here, theirs led to extinction. Eons is a...

12 min - Dinosaurs & Prehistory - PBS Eons

Read Deeper: Dinosaurs & Prehistory

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte - View on Amazon
  2. Dinosaurs Rediscovered by Michael Benton - View on Amazon
  3. The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker - View on Amazon
  4. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday - View on Amazon
  5. Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky - View on Amazon
  6. After the Ice by Steven J. Mithen - View on Amazon
  7. The Ice Age by Jamie C. Woodward - View on Amazon
  8. The Long Summer by Brian M. Fagan - View on Amazon
  9. The Little Ice Age by Brian M. Fagan - View on Amazon
  10. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
  11. Lone Survivors by Chris Stringer - View on Amazon
  12. Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes - View on Amazon
  13. Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
  14. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald Johanson - View on Amazon
  15. Neanderthal Man by Svante Pääbo - View on Amazon
  16. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
  17. The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen - View on Amazon
  18. The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen - View on Amazon
  19. How to Clone a Mammoth by Beth Shapiro - View on Amazon
  20. Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould - View on Amazon
  21. Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
  22. The Crucible of Creation by Simon Conway-Morris - View on Amazon
  23. Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey - View on Amazon
  24. On the origin of species by means of natural selection by Charles Darwin (4.3/5) - View on Amazon

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