He says that the damage caused by “lack of human contact is comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day”: a grim thought for those of us in lockdown alone.īregman bookends Humankind with British military history, arguing that stories we’ve come to see as one-off miracles are in fact representative case studies. Humans “domesticated” themselves, evolving through a process that anthropologist Brian Hare terms “survival of the friendliest” Bregman calls us “homo puppy”, noting that “social learning” (one of the few measures of intelligence where toddlers score notably better than gorillas and chimps) is essential to our nature. He argues instead that our natural impulse is really to communicate, co-operate, learn from each other and avoid conflict. Bregman wants to disprove “veneer theory”, the idea that a thin layer of civilisation is all that keeps us from giving in to an alleged natural inclination for violent anarchy. Utopia took a scattershot approach, but this follow-up – although enormously wide-ranging, with fascinating digressions about everything from Russian foxes to Easter Island statues – has one unifying purpose.

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