El salto social

Following the popular scientific tradition of Sapiens, this is a revolutionary exploration that combines anthropology, biology, history, and psychology with evolutionary science to reveal the extent to which the great evolutionary challenges and leaps of the past have shaped some of the most essential aspects of our being. Issues as fundamental as leadership, innovation, aggressiveness or happiness were permanently altered thanks to the "social leap" that our ancestors made when they left the tropical forest and colonized the savannah. Their struggle for survival demanded the passage from individualism to a new form of collectivism that forever altered the workings of our minds. It changed the way we fight and our inclination to make amends, influenced the way we lead and obey, made us innovative, created a new kind of social intelligence, and produced new sources of life satisfaction. The social leap depicts human evolution through three critical evolutionary tipping points with unusual ease to explain how events in our remote past have shaped our lives today. From the trivial, such as the reason for our tendency to exaggerate, to the most surprising, such as why we believe our own lies and why fame and fortune will likely bring us both sadness and happiness, the implications are extraordinary and far-reaching. .