Quarto Publishing Group USA

Humans are the last remaining hominin species and the only member of the genus Homo to have colonized the entire planet.

Anthropology is the study of the most complex and contradictory species on the planet—us. Humans are not easy to understand and are even more difficult to explain. On paper, we are a relatively large, naked form of ape with a big brain and an odd way of walking on two legs.

No other species comes close to being as odd as us.