Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

by Ian Morris

Book Overview

The best-selling author of Why the West Rules--for Now examines the evolution and future of human values

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691160392
• ISBN13: 9780691160399
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"