The Dawn of Everything

'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike.Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts.