Final Entry - Human Origins

(Let me just dive right into it) The book for the most part, follows Human evolution, going through the waves of change in Africa, such as stone tools, social and family relationship changes, and bipedal walking. It eventually spreads out into other areas such as Neanderthal evolution and the basic spread of Homo erectus.. Every now and then the book jumps away from the main timeline to discuss something like a comparison of ancient apes to modern chimpazees, or to discuss a theory (such as the missing link theory) in a quick chapter. But, it soon goes back to talk about the evolutionary timeline. It covers such common topics as the Cro-magnon/Neanderthal relationship in Europe, to the more elusive fate of the Homo-erectus in Asia or the fascinating discovery of the Homo floresiensis in Indonesia.
It usually jumps from one archeological discovery to the next, and while these are fine checkpoints, I feel the author sometimes gets to excited with a certain point of finding and goes into too much detail. But the author usually brings you back with relative clarity, and little confusion on subjects.
But other then that the text is clear and very readable, and not in the least daunting. I found the book easy to read (as in length) but not too easy, which is good. Overall I say it is a very well written book.