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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
PART I: THE SYMBOLIC APE
1: A very remote period indeed
2: The rise and fall of the Planet of the Apes
3: Down from the trees
4: The southern apes
5: Becoming human
6: The first Diaspora – or was it?
7: The archaics
8: The other people
9: Enter Homo sapiens
10: The long African dawn
11: The making of the modern mind
PART II: OUT OF AFRICA
12: Going global
13: Two waves
14: An inaccessible peninsula
15: The final frontier
16: Humanity in the dock
PART III: THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
17: Feed the world
18: Assembling the package
19: Waves and lurches
20: Spreading the word
21: A continent divided
22: Of rice and men
23: Out of Taiwan
24: Limited options and tilted axes
PART IV: THE FIRST CITIES
25: The Urban Revolution
26: Early adopters in Mesopotamia and Egypt
27: An enigmatic civilisation
28: Interesting times
29: Mexican superpowers
30: The Maya
31: Before the Inca
32: Humans: the future
Maps
Infographics
Plates and illustrations
Picture acknowledgements
Glossary
References
Release notes
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