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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language — Robin Dunbar
- Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes — Frans de Waal
- Social Network Size in Humans — R. A. Hill and R. I. M. Dunbar
- Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality — Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
- Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History — Noel G. Butlin
- The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think — Brian Hare
- War in Human Civilization — Azar Gat
- War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage — Lawrence H. Keeley
- Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans — Paul Mellars, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Katie Boyle
- First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America — David J. Meitzer
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
- Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust — Charles Patterson
- Ecology and Culture of the Pastoral Tuareg — Johannes Nicolaisen
- The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative — Robert B. Mark
- Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children — Carol Neel
- The Story of Writing — Andrew Robinson
- Mathematics of the Incas – Code of the Quipu — Marcia and Robert Ascher
- The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process — Stephen D. Houston
- Axial Civilizations and World History — Johann P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt and Björn Wittrock
- China: A History — Harold M. Tanner
- Identity and Genesis of Caste System in India — Ramesh Chandra
- Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age — Susan Bayly
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber
- A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day — Glyn Davies
- The Ascent of Money — Niall Ferguson
- The Aztecs — Nahum Megged
- Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction — R. Rollinger and U. Christoph
- The Meme Machine — Susan Blackmore
- Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History — David Christian
- Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail — Stephen R. Bown
- The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific — Gananath Obeyesekere
- After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 — John Darwin
- The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change — Vaclav Smil
- The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century — Wolfgang Schivelbusch
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined — Steven Pinker
- Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide — Joshua S. Goldstein
- Warless Societies and the Origin of War — Raymond C. Kelly
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom — Jonathan Haid
- The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life — R. Wright
- Happiness in Economics — Richard A. Easterlin
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A History from the Greeks to the Present — D. M. McMahon