CONTENTS
Prologue 1
I: WHY DOES ADVANCED SOCIAL LIFE EXIST?
1. The Human Condition 7
II: WHERE Do WE COME FROM?
2. The Two Paths to Conquest 13
3. The Approach 21
4. The Arrival 33
5. Threading the Evolutionary Maze 45
6. The Creative Forces 49
7. Tribalism Is a Fundamental Human Trait 57
8. War as Humanity's Hereditary Curse 62
9. The Breakout 77
10. The Creative Explosion 85
11. The Sprint to Civilization 97
III: How SOCIAL INSECTS CONQUERED THE
INVERTEBRATE WORLD
12. The Invention of Eusociality 109
13. Inventions That Advanced the Social Insects 120
IV: THE FORCES OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION
14. The Scientific Dilemma of Rarity 133
15. Insect Altruism and Eusociality Explained 139
16. Insects Take the Giant Leap 148
17. How Natural Selection Creates Social Instincts 158
18. The Forces of Social Evolution 166
19. The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusociality 183
V: WHAT ARE WE?
20. What Is Human Nature? 191
21. How Culture Evolved 212
22. The Origins of Language 225
23. The Evolution of Cultural Variation 236
24. The Origins of Morality and Honor 241
25. The Origins of Religion 255
26. The Origins of the Creative Arts 268
VI: WHERE ARE WE GOING?
27. A New Enlightenment 287
Acknowledgments 301
References 303
Index 327