- Roberts, [[A Short History of the World]], 1997
- Cook, [[A Brief History of the Human Race]], 2003
- Reich, [[Who We Are and How We Got Here]], 2018
- Boyd and Silk, [[How Humans Evolved]], 2020
- Graeber and Wengrow, [[The Dawn of Everything]], 2021
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History recommends some books here, including:
- Svante Pääbo, [[Neanderthal Man]], 2014
- Chris Gosden, [[Prehistory A Very Short Introduction]], 2018
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, [[Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art]], 2020
- Jeremy DeSilva, [[A Most Interesting Problem]], 2021
- Kermit Pattison, [[Fossil Men]], 2021
- Jennifer Raff, [[Origin A Genetic History of the Americas]], 2022
- Tom Higham, [[The World Before Us]], 2022
- Sergio Almécija, [[Humans Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts]], 2023