New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. "To many knowledge, no other book integrates the study of human history with principles of biological and cultural evolution on such an ambitious scale." David Sloan Wilson, author of Darwin's Cathedral. Daniel Lord Smail, Professor of History at Harvard University, shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous literature accessible to the general reader, he lays out a bold new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology in to the realm of history. 2007 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology.