Meet ridley's new book shows that there are no examples of innovation that did not cumulate from other previous innovations, just before and and concurrently with other people. This is how we know those u f os that the navy's been king about, they don't want to say they're aliens,. Well, it might be russian or chinese assets. But maybe we've just underestimated the power of hunter gathers to do stuff. Ouknow, sort of the bigotry of low expectations.
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.