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
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