Ann Gibbons is the author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors. She is a correspondent for Science magazine, where she has been the primary writer on human evolution for more than a decade. Here you can find excerpts and reviews of her book, an archive of her articles and information about her talks.

Praise for The First Human: "The last decade has witnessed a rebirth in the way we understand our species' first steps toward becoming human. Perhaps more than anyone, Ann Gibbons has had her finger on the pulse of that revolution, and in The First Human she provides a startlingly vivid chronicle. Hominids four million years old come alive in its pages, overshadowed only by the ambition, bravery and occasionally astonishing viciousness of the men and women who risk their lives and reputations trying to uncover the secret of our earliest origins. A must-read for anyone interested in human evolution or human nature." — James Shreeve, author of The Genome War and The Neandertal Enigma

A finalist for the 2007 L.A. Times Book Prize (Science and Technology)