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Applying insights from the massive amount of historical data collected by the Seshat project, this edited volume reveals that there was no single “Axial Age” in human history.
Follow Peter Turchin on an epic journey through time. From stone-age assassins to the orbiting cathedrals of the space age, from bloodthirsty god-kings to India’s first vegetarian emperor, discover the secret history of our species—and the evolutionary logic that governed it all.
