Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

Title: Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World Author: Harvey Whitehouse ISBN: 9780674291621 Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New Anthropology 1622921 Publisher Description: "An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity's evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures." --Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens The ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin. Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive empires. But now, for the first time, i