The Story of Us Humans, From Atoms to Today's Civilization is a 650-page book by Robert Dalling Ph.D., and includes questions, index, bibliography, and 1,200 internet links taking you to images, video, and discussed documents.

The Story of Us Humans is a self-contained, one volume explanation of human nature and of the natural and social history of humans, including the origin of our species and the origins of our emotions, behaviors, and morals. Written in plain language, it explains what astronomy, physics, geology, biology, chemistry, anthropology, history, religion, social science, and political science tell us about ourselves. This is a book about how we got here, what we are, and where we are today. It is a summary of everything in our world, including the origin, history, and current ways of our neighborhoods, science, business, technology, religion, and government.

Nature and the nature of a human are described through each of our stepping stones including the Big Bang, atoms, stars, planets, molecular building blocks of life, fish, amphibians, reptiles, parenting mammals, and social primates followed by us cultural humans with our parenting and social emotions and morals and our civilization of farming, cities, science, business, and government. These things form the largest elements of our lives. The book also contains a description of the way of life of gatherer-hunters, village farmers, big city factory workers and people in poverty and discusses social and economic justice and the well-being and the quality of life for the people of each of these groups.

Understanding our own nature along with something about the flow of civilization helps us to together choose where next to take our civilization. What priorities and goals do you have for your own life and for our community, nation, and planet-wide civilization? What makes you happy? How do you gauge success in life? Ask every person on the planet what matters most to them and they will answer "Healthy and happy children, families, and communities" because human thoughts and actions involve little else besides love and children, spouse and family, friends, community and justice. How do the goals of religion, government, and our civilization as a whole today compare with those goals most important to a human and how can we measure the success of our attempts to reach those goals? How do we maximize the benefits of civilization for as many of us as possible? How do we arrange our mutual civilization such that it enables each of us to pursue the limits of our individual and combined talents, passions, and character so that we can spend our lifetimes improving ourselves and our civilization. We all agree that each newborn child is equally deserving and capable of a happy, healthy, and contributing life. Each of us simply wants to laugh and joke with our family and friends, pursue life, raise children and be valued and contributing members of our communities.

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