The Atlantic

Key takeaways from Human History Gets a Rewrite

A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.

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How many books have we lost, I thought, that will never get written now? How many insights, how much wisdom, will remain forever unexpressed?

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