The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. By H. G. Wells. With the editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Prof. Gilbert Murray.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. We have long debated the origin of mankind. Some believe in God’s creation of man in ...

Also found was a layer of accumulated ashes six meters thick and animal bones that had been burned, which suggested that Peking Man used fire to cook his food. The origin of man is admittedly a ...

Hendrik Willem Van Loon's monumental Story of Mankind has been brought to the screen in a name-dropping production that provides a kaleidoscope of history from Pleistocene man to Plutonium man.