Human origins: a short history

Introduction

Part 1. A long evolutionary road. Primates

A shrewdness of apes

The leap from ape to hominin

Part 2. Early hominins. The southern ape

A hominin party in Africa

Tools for tinkering

Part 3. The emergence of Homo. What it means to be human

A species to take over the world

Our closest cousins

Part 4. The rise of the 'wise man'. The first Sapiens

Jewels, burials and ceremony

The big questions.