01 In this highly original, ground-breaking book, Terence Kealey presents an evolutionary and economic history of humanity, showing how the roots of barter, trade and contract are embedded in human nature and how markets work on the evolutionary principles of natural selection. Richly multi-disciplinary, the book ranges across human history from neolithic times, through Ancient Egypt and the European explorers of the Renaissance, to the failure of the Soviet economy, to show how an understanding of biology and natural selection can radically transform our view of economics, business, technology, and the economic history of our species. Witty, brilliant, thought-provoking and provocative, this is an important and controversial book.