neoliberal, hillary clinton would adore this book. good for first part, about evolution and how humans evolved/lived/learned/loved, went too quickly into modernity, and with modernity it ceased aiming to tell the story of humanity, and became a treatise on how we fucked up. I don't disagree with his points, we certainly fucked up, and still do, but I don't really want to read about it, especially in the framework of the history of humanity, a timeframe of epic proportions, of which the first hundred thousand+ years of it is given less space than the past 200. I'd choose a book on the industrial revolution and its consequences, on the transatlantic slave trade, opium wars, women's suffrage, capitalism, communism--these are worth reading about and interesting/valuable, but I'm peeved by the skewing towards modernity in a book purporting to be a history of humankind, not a history of civilization, especially industrialized civilization.