Non-fiction book recommendation, please!

I'm wondering if anyone has a good book to recommend me on what we know of the origin of the human species and that breaks evolution down in simple terms. Science was something that I just kind of shut my brain off toward when I was in school and that's something I regret now that I'm older and wish to know about this stuff.

I'm wondering if there's perhaps an "Evolution for Dummies" book out there somewhere? The library I frequent seems to have quite a bit of juvenile books from Isaac Asimov but I'm not sure if they're still up to date or not or even if they really apply to what I'm looking for...

Thanks!

RichardGarfinkle said:

Do you mind answering a few specifics to help narrow down the kind of book.

Are you concerned with evolution overall or with human evolution from relatively recent prehuman ancestry?

Are you after the latest developments or do you want a good explanation that isn't precisely up to date.

How exact do you wish the science to be (that is do you care about the particular methods used by biologists and paleontologists) or are you okay with an explanation of discoveries and theories without heavy analysis?

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1. Overall, I suppose, though I'm particularly interested in how it applies to humans and how scientists believe that we came to be the people we are today. And again, in simple language. I may know more about this stuff than I'm giving myself credit for, but I doubt it.

2. I'm gonna say the latter - a good explanation that may not necessarily be the latest and greatest.

3. I'm not too concerned with the methods as the methods themselves will most likely be Greek to me.

Thanks!

Teinz said:

I read "On the Origin" only recently (two years ago). It's still very powerful, in my opinion.

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Thanks for the recommendation!