jer diamond points out in australian aborigines can, in a generation, program computers, fly jets and do anething il yo. So clearlytat, it's not an intelligence or or hard wired issue there. How do we account for why humans make so much more use of culture than that other animals? O the corbin birds and andt parrot family birds have big brains and are as cultural as cinkanses, basically les a hole.
In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.