Author: Hancock, Graham

Less than 50,000 years ago, humans had no art, religion, sophisticated symbolism, or innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic transformation, all the skills and qualities that we value most highly appeared fully formed, as though bestowed by mysterious powers. Could the "supernaturals"depicted in Stone-Age cave paintings and glimpsed in shamanic hallucinations be the ancient teachers of humankind? Could it be that human evolution is not the "blind,""meaningless"process Darwin identified, but something purposive and intelligent that we have barely begun to understand? Now in paper. 540 pp.