For a complementary take on this, I'd recommend 'The Ancestor's Tale' [0] by Richard Dawkins. It goes backwards through time, focussing on the points where our

For a complementary take on this, I'd recommend 'The Ancestor's Tale' [0] by Richard Dawkins. It goes backwards through time, focussing on the points where our history branches from a common ancestor to different modern 'cousins'. In other words, similarly to the tree of life explorer, it's looking at the non-leaf nodes (the branching points) inside the tree of life, albeit with a fixed path, but adding info about what actually changed at the branching point. So we successively meet other hominids, primates, non-primate mammals, non-mammal chordates, non-chordate animals, etc etc, each with many different sub-divisions. It's quite a unique perspective, and brings home just how extensive the tree of life actually is. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale