The Unruly Child of the Biosphere. Conversations about Human Behavior in the Company of Birds, Beasts, and Children

Why are many of our preferences strange to those around us and inexplicable to ourselves? Why do a few years of childhood mean as much to us as the rest of our lives? Why do teenagers like to gather in loud, persistent groups and sometimes become uncontrollable? Why does love blind? What form of marital relationships is 'natural' for humans? Where do aggression, fear, and subordination come from? What is the natural nature of power? Answers to all these questions can be found in the prehistoric past of humanity, in its biological beginnings.