Juan Luis Arsuaga

A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in which science is...

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Luis Arsuaga and Juan José Millás is a thought-provoking journey into our prehistoric origins. A New Scientist Book of the Year, this captivating narrative invites readers to explore the world we live in with fresh eyes. Millás, who often feels out of place in modern human society, muses on...

This engaging book tells the story of human evolution, asking if man is indeed the "chosen species" or merely an evolutionary accident. The Chosen Species is written by world-renowned paleoanthropologists who are co-directors of the excavations at Atapuerca—a World Heritage Site and Europe's oldest known burial site—where a new human species, Homo antecessor, was discovered. It discusses various hypotheses of...