The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray

ISBN: 9780713998986

Allen Lane | 31 December 2012

Hardcover | 512 pages

In The World Until Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize‑winning author Jared Diamond offers a visionary new account of humanity’s past by examining how tribal societies — many of which still exist — approached fundamental problems of everyday life until virtually “yesterday” in evolutionary terms. Drawing on nearly five decades of fieldwork and personal experience living among tribal peoples in New Guinea and elsewhere, Diamond reveals what traditional societies can teach the modern world about child‑rearing, risk‑management, justice, aging, multilingualism, and conflict resolution. By comparing the ways of life in traditional and modern societies, he shows how practices once commonplace across human history can offer fresh insights into contemporary human behaviour and social organisation