Softcover. 505 pages

Pages are tanned.

Shows that many of our key traits—self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics—are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Zeroes in on critical turning points in evolutionary history, and traces the origins of sex, altruism, violence, rape, and dominance.