Thanks to the power of myths, large-scale cooperation and empathy, humans have developed through the cognitive, agrarian and scientific revolutions an incredible capacity to create tools and technologies. These allow us to create our own world, dissociated from our natural environment. As our cognitive capacity has evolved faster than our biological system, we are no longer physiologically adapted to the world we have created.

“our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah.”

In a humorous and subtle tone, the author takes us through the major evolutions of our evolution, confronting us with the artificial world we have created through our evolutions. A deep reflection on Humanity, its successes, its failures and its challenges, a questioning of the human, social and environmental challenges.

“Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.”