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1. The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil)
- projects the next 40-50 years of technological evolution and its implications for humanity 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
- attempts to understand why there was disproportionate cultural and technological development over the past 10,000 years 3. What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee (Jonathan Marks)
- deconstructs biological and social science and creates a new model for understanding human evolution, variation and behaviour 4. The Better Angels of Our Nature (Stephen Pinker)
- explores the history of human violence from the Paleolithic to modern times 5. The Ancestor's Tale (Richard Dawkins)
- creates an accessible reverse narrative of the past 3.5 billion years of biological evolution