Lewis-Kraus digs into a though-provoking topic of the neolithic evolution. He provides evidence on how communal and cooperative populations of early homo sapiens existed and what pushed the transition of governance. Lewis-Kraus does clearly take a stance that the prototypical hunter-gatherer -> agriculturally-supported population boom -> governing structure (as posed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is exaggerated and too readily accepted. In the end, he is simply bringing light to alternative theory and why contemporary human societies may be able to learn something from early neolithic communities.