Holy smokes. This book was an exercise in some serious meta existential thinking. The author takes us way way back in time before sapiens were at the top of the food chain. We learn about the evolution of homo sapiens along with neanderthals and why one species won out in the evolution game. We look at the creation of societies and religions, and the author forces us to look deep at a kind of godless reality that is sometimes a little startling, even for me. The premise that so much of our life is based on imaginary concepts that we've decided as a species to collectively believe in really made my brain have to work hard, but in the end, I feel like it was worth the effort. The balancing of biology and history and chemistry made me seriously consider some long held assumptions and feel a new wave of both fear and revulsion about what we are doing to our planet. Sometimes it gets a little bit longwinded and boring. But overall, this book has created some new pathways in my own sapien brain and I am grateful for that.
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