CONTENTS<div><br><div>Introduction</div><div>1 Our deep history: a short overview</div><div>The human past</div><div>Descended from the apes?</div><div><br></div><div>2 Human biodiversity and close encounters</div><div>Sapiens: the African origins</div><div>Sapiens the conqueror</div><div>The Neanderthals</div><div>The Denisovans</div><div>The Hobbits</div><div>Homo naledi</div><div>Races and racism</div><br></div><div>3 The march for hegemony</div><div>The first “hybridization with domestication”: tools, fire and the environment</div><div>Once a player, always a player</div><div>Disappearance of the Neanderthals</div><div>Man's best friend</div><div>Self-domestication of Homo sapiens</div>Last act<br><div><br></div><div>4 The naked ape dresses up</div><div>The naked ape</div><div>Coats, shoes and sheds</div><div>Dress, shame and symbols</div><div><br></div><div>5 The evolution of woman</div>Giving birth: a risky business<div>Monogamy or polygamy?</div><div>Taming the female</div><div>Sexual selection: the role of women</div><div><br></div><div>6 Work, leisure and learning</div><div>Growing up too fast?</div><div>Art and entertainment</div><div>Teaching and learning</div><div>Trust, gossip and shared beliefs</div><div>Work leisure and learning today</div><div><br></div><div>7 Food for body and mind</div><div>Ritual food</div><div>Vegetarian or carnivorous? Omnivorous</div><div>Farmers and breeders</div><div>Us and them</div><div>Turning our genes on and off</div><div><br></div><div>8 Diseases and grief</div><div>Diseases and therapies from the past</div><div>Diseases of the present: a possible mismatch</div><div>Funerary rites</div>The first hierarchical societies<div>Bones, tombs and relics</div><div><br></div><div>9 Brain and mind</div><div>Inside the grey box</div><div>Brain and mind in deep time</div><div>Thinking of thinking</div><div>Modelling and imagining</div><div><br></div><div>10 Imaginary worlds</div><div>New realities</div><div>Overcoming perceptual barriers</div><div>Excess of representation: the economic sphere</div><div>Symmetric and asymmetric warfare</div><div><br></div><div>11 Homo economicus</div><div>When it all began</div><div>What is money?</div><div>Goods and services</div><div>The private accumulation of wealth</div><div>The destruction of collective wealth</div><div><br></div><div>12 Humans of the future</div><div>Digital networks</div><div>Social networks, digital games and search engines</div><div>Market driven digital gurus</div><div>Socio-economic networks</div><div>Social networks of knowledge</div><div>Global networks and territorial networks</div><div>Shrinking the brain</div><div>Power and pleasure</div><div>Truth and post-truth</div><div>Intelligent weapons and preventive war</div><div>Transhumanism and immortal networks</div><div>Post-humanism</div><div>Deep neural networks</div><div>Tamed by the machines?</div><div><br></div><div>Bibliography</div>
