Origin Africa

A major new look at how Africa’s geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth – Homo sapiens.

Reviews

'Profusely illustrated and exquisitely written … Origin Africa provides the most riveting account of the evolution of the African continent, and the animal life on it, that I have read … It brims with exuberant creativity' Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books
‘Magnificent. So rich, moving with ease through deep time and biological place, using a lifetime of thought’ Redmond O’Hanlon
‘Africa from the inside … Extremely good stuff’ Paul Theroux
‘Lovely … and the pictures are magnificent’ Richard Dawkins
Praise for Jonathan Kingdon
'Jonathan Kingdon's work is one of the things that make the present day such an exciting time for anyone with the slightest intellectual curiosity. His subject matter is our profound and thrilling human origins, and his stance toward it makes his work unique and priceless' Philip Pullman
'Jonathan Kingdon is a subtle amalgam of artist and scientist. He has a deep and up-to-date knowledge of human prehistory, and of the topology and geography of Africa, the continent where most of human prehistory happened. But he is also our leading zoological artist, and I think it must be his artist's eye that gives his writing style its vividness' Richard Dawkins, Times Literary Supplement