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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

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Virginia Heffernan
Jul 11, 2022
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For this recent issue of Wired, I profile David Wengrow, one of the authors of The Dawn of Everything. I’m only able to include a short excerpt below, but you can see the whole piece here.

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THE PHRASE “THE dawn of everything” first struck David Wengrow, one of the authors of The Dawn of Everything, as marvelously absurd. Everything. Everything! It was to…

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