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Renowned American population geneticist and director of the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project, Spencer Wells, draws on cutting-edge research to show how humanity's current actions-both successes and challenges-are shaped by the prehistoric evolutionary heritage of humans and the fundamental lifestyle decisions that humans have made in the past. A wide range of phenomena in modern life, from anthropogenic climate change to the obesity epidemic and mental disorders, are rooted in evolutionary history, which can now be glimpsed through advances in the study of the human genome. Long-term evolutionary trends raise fundamental questions about humanity's immediate future.

Advised for professional historians and other social scientists, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the past and concerned about the future of humanity.