At a time when the future of human civilisation looks shaky, a reappraisal of how we got here suggests that changing direction may be easier than we think
WHY is society the way it is? We thought we knew. Now, it appears, we have been thinking about it all wrong.
In our special issue on civilisation , we explore what has happened to human societies over the past 10,000 years and what came before. It details new evidence on why many of us abandoned hunting and gathering for a life of farming, urbanism and paperwork, and explores why societies became more unequal and hierarchical, including the role war and religion played in such transformations.
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