THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR. FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian For generations our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal or thuggish and warlike. Civilization we are told could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or alternatively by