New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2015. Why does human culture vary so radically from place to place and change at such a bewildering pace? Eminent historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto, combining insights from a huge range of disciplines, including history, biology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, sociology, ethology, zoology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, the cognitive sciences, and even business studies, argues that culture is exempt from evolution.