To the Hebrew University, and in particular to its department of history, my academic home; and to all my students over the years, who taught me so much through their questions, their answers and their silences.
To my research assistant, Idan Sherer, who devotedly handled whatever I threw his way, be it chimpanzees, Neanderthals or cyborgs. And to my other assistants, Ram Liran, Eyal Miller and Omri Shefer Raviv, who pitched in from time to time.
To Michal Shavit, my publisher at Penguin Random House in the UK, for taking a gamble, and for her unfailing commitment and support over many years; and to Ellie Steel, Suzanne Dean, Bethan Jones, Maria Garbutt-Lucero and their colleagues at Penguin Random House, for all their help.
To David Milner, who did a superb job editing the manuscript, saved me from many an embarrassing mistake, and reminded me that ‘delete’ is probably the most important key on the keyboard.
To Preena Gadher and Lija Kresowaty of Riot Communications, for helping to spread the word so efficiently.
To Jonathan Jao, my publisher at HarperCollins in New York, and to Claire Wachtel, my former publisher there, for their faith, encouragement and insight.
To Shmuel Rosner and Eran Zmora, for seeing the potential, and for their valuable feedback and advice.
To Deborah Harris, for helping with the vital breakthrough.
To Amos Avisar, Shilo de Ber, Tirza Eisenberg, Luke Matthews, Rami Rotholz and Oren Shriki, who read the manuscript carefully, and devoted much time and effort to correcting my mistakes and enabling me to see things from other perspectives.
To Yigal Borochovsky, who convinced me to go easy on God.
To Yoram Yovell, for his insights and for our walks together in the Eshta’ol forest.
To Ori Katz and Jay Pomeranz, who helped me get a better understanding of the capitalist system.
To Carmel Weismann, Joaquín Keller and Antoine Mazieres, for their thoughts about brains and minds.
To Diego Olstein, for many years of warm friendship and calm guidance.
To Ehud Amir, Shuki Bruck, Miri Worzel, Guy Zaslavaki, Michal Cohen, Yossi Maurey, Amir Sumakai-Fink, Sarai Aharoni and Adi Ezra, who read selected parts of the manuscript and shared their ideas.
To Eilona Ariel, for being a gushing fountain of enthusiasm and a firm rock of refuge.
To my mother-in-law and accountant, Hannah Yahav, for keeping all the money balls in the air.
To my grandmother Fanny, my mother, Pnina, my sisters Liat and Einat, and to all my other family members and friends for their support and companionship.
To Chamba, Pengo and Chili, who offered a canine perspective on some of the main ideas and theories of this book.
And to my spouse and manager, Itzik, who already today functions as my Internet-of-All-Things.
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1.1 Computer artwork © KTSDESIGN/Science Photo Library.
1.2 The Triumph of Death, c.1562, Bruegel, Pieter the Elder © The Art Archive/Alamy Stock Photo.
1.3 © NIAID/CDC/Science Photo Library.
1.4 Moscow, 1968 © Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images.
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1.11 Illustration: pie chart of global biomass of large animals.
1.12 Detail from Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City © Lessing Images.
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1.16 Adapted from Weiss, J.M., Cierpial, M.A. & West, C.H., ‘Selective breeding of rats for high and low motor activity in a swim test: toward a new animal model of depression’, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 61:49–66 (1998).
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1.18 Film still taken from www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIbCtz_Xwk © TVR.
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1.20 Rudy Burckhardt, photographer. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, c.1905–1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. © The Pollock–Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London, 2016.
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1.25 Woodcut from ‘Passional Christi und Antichristi’ by Philipp Melanchthon, published in 1521, Cranach, Lucas (1472–1553) (studio of) © Private Collection/Bridgeman Images.
1.26 Source: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), European Commission.
1.27 © Bibliothèque nationale de France, RC-A-02764, Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V, folio 12v.
1.28 Manuscript: Registrum Gregorii, c.983 © Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images.
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1.33 The Thinker, 1880–81 (bronze), Rodin, Auguste, Burrell Collection, Glasgow © Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums)/Bridgeman Images.
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1.36 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany © Lessing Images.
1.37 Tom Lea, That 2,000 Yard Stare, 1944. Oil on canvas, 36”x28”. LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. © Courtesy of the Tom Lea Institute, El Paso, Texas.
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1.40 Virgin and Child, Sassoferrato, Il (Giovanni Battista Salvi) (1609–85), Musee Bonnat, Bayonne, France © Bridgeman Images.
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1.48 Illustration: the spectrum of conciousness.
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