The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

This book by David Graeber came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dr. Gül Dölen. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution, from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality, and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike, either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike.