AUDIOBOOKS (Non-fiction): "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" by Jeremy DeSilva (read by Kaleo Griffith)

 Another in my read list of 'science for laymen'.  "First Steps" plays into my love of anthropology, with a wide ranging look at walking upright - from our earliest hominid ancestors to the work of a cutting edge orthopedic surgeon.  

I'm not perfectly sold on the premise that it was solely bipedal motion that shaped ALL of early humans (and proto-human) evolution.  But the author makes a good case for language, cooperation and social bonding.  I did like that he delved into the risks and childbirth complications that walking upright created for our species.  

I also really liked the sections on fossil hunting, and how even the smallest shard of bone can be a clue to the life that individual lived.

Like the dinosaur book I reviewed a while back, the narrator is excellent and there were no stumbles on any of the scientific terminology.   

 Audiobook available on HarperAudio via Libby