• Dedication
• Contents
• Timeline of History
• Part One: The Cognitive Revolution
  • 1. An Animal of No Significance
  • 2. The Tree of Knowledge
  • 3. A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve
  • 4. The Flood
• Part Two: The Agricultural Revolution
  • 5. History’s Biggest Fraud
  • 6. Building Pyramids
  • 7. Memory Overload
  • 8. There is No Justice in History
• Part Three: The Unification of Humankind
  • 9. The Arrow of History
  • 10. The Scent of Money
  • 11. Imperial Visions
  • 12. The Law of Religion
  • 13. The Secret of Success
• Part Four: The Scientific Revolution
  • 14. The Discovery of Ignorance
  • 15. The Marriage of Science and Empire
  • 16. The Capitalist Creed
  • 17. The Wheels of Industry
  • 18. A Permanent Revolution
  • 19. And They Lived Happily Ever After
  • 20. The End of Homo Sapiens
• Afterword: The Animal that Became a God
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Credits
• Copyright
• About the Publisher