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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture — M. Harris
- The History and Geography of Human Genes — L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza
- The Great Human Diasporas — L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francisco Cavalli-Sforza
- The Illustrated History of Humankind — Göran Burenhult
- The Evolution of Man and Society — C. D. Darlington
- Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 — Alfred Crosby
- Evolution and Culture — Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service
- The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness — D. Tab Rasmussen, ed.
- Bones of Contention — Roger Lewin
- The Rise of the West — William McNeill
- The Third Chimpanzee — Jared Diamond
- The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans — Paul Mellars and Chris Stringer
- Feathered Gods and Fishhooks — Patrick Kirch
- Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico — Hugh Thomas
- Crops and Man — Jack Harlan
- The Origins of Agriculture and Settled Life — Richard MacNeish
- The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective — David Rindos
- The Emergence of Agriculture — Bruce Smith
- Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food — Charles Heiser, Jr.
- The Golden Peaches of Samarkand — Edward Schafer
- Evolution of Domesticated Animals — I. L. Mason
- Rats, Lice, and History — Hans Zinsser
- A Plague on Us — Geddes Smith
- Plagues and Peoples — William McNeill
- Man and Microbes — Arno Karlen
- Vectors of Death — Ann Ramenofsk
- Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History — Donald Hopkins
- The Origins of Writing — Wayne Senner, ed.
- Reading the Past — J. T. Hooker
- The Alphabet Effect — Robert Logan
- Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations — Joyce Marcus
- Technology in World Civilization — Arnold Pacey
- The History of Invention — Trevor Williams
- The Power of the Machine — R. A. Buchanan
- The Evolution of Technology — George Basalla
- Primitive Social Organization — Elman Service
- Origins of the State and Civilization — Elman Service
- The Evolution of Political Society — Morton Fried
- Heartland of Cities — Robert Adams
- Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization — Richard Burger
- A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, and Sahul — J. Peter White and James O’Connell
- The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan — Bridget and Raymond Allchin
- The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World — Patrick Kirch
- Reversing Language Shift — Joshua Fishman
- Africa in the Iron Age — Roland Oliver and Brian Fagan
- Quaternary Extinctions — Paul Martin and Richard Klein
- When China Ruled the Seas — Louise Levathes
- The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations — Norman Yoffee and George Cowgill
- Civilization and Capitalism — Fernand Braudel
- Evolution and the Diversity of Life — Ernst Mayr
- Community Ecology — Jared Diamond and Ted Case
- Forces of Change — Henry Hobhouse
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy — Kenneth Pomeranz