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Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life.

Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought: tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. This is the history of "ideas" as it has never presented before' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day.