A fascinating inquiry, which leads us to rethink the nature of human capacities, as well as the proudest moments of our own history, and our interactions with and indebtedness to the cultures and forgotten intellectuals of indigenous societies. Challenging and illuminating. -- Noam Chomsky
‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history
A new book recasts social evolution as surprisingly varied
Social evolution, from Ice Age hunter-gatherer networks to ancient Egypt’s pyramid-building dynasties and beyond, gets reinterpreted in a new book as a series of flexible systems that didn’t inevitably produce rampant inequality.
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