The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us

“Rutherford describes [The Book of Humans] as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of creating complex tools, art, music, science, and engineering. It’s an intriguing question, one his book sets against descriptions of the infinitely amusing strategies and antics of a dizzying array of animals.”—The New York Times Book Review Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primate...