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Wired for Culture by Mark Pagel – review

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The search for the sharp dividing line between us and other species may be a wild goose chase. But as Mark Pagel’s comprehensive history of human co-operation shows, there are capacities we have in abundance that appear as mere traces in the animal kingdom…

Review in the Guardian (published 25 February)

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