François Savatier

François Savatier is a journalist for the magazine Pour la Science (the French edition of Scientific American), where he focuses on the science of the past. He is the co-author of A Pocket History of Human Evolution and The Secret World of Denisovans.

A Pocket History of Human Evolution
How We Became Sapiens
by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
Paperback with flaps | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a … Continue reading →

The Secret World of Denisovans
The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
Hardcover | $30.00 US / $39.00 CAN

In December 2010, scientists discovered a fragment of a finger bone in the remote, isolated Denisova Cave in Siberia. To their surprise, the bone contained neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal DNA. Rather, the fast-advancing science of paleogenetics revealed that the … Continue reading →

The Secret World of Denisovans
The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

In 2010, archaeologists working in Denisova Cave, Siberia, unearthed a tiny fragment of finger bone—and brought a lost human species to light. Thanks to the modern miracle of DNA analysis, “Denisovans” quickly took their place—alongside Neanderthals—as our closest cousins. Since … Continue reading →