Patrick's Reviews > Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going

This book is well written and broken up into ~100 short, easy-to-digest chapters that are topical, yet follow a coherent path. I didn’t realize that I was so interested in cultural anthropology, but the way Marvin Harris explains most things really drew me in. I learned a lot about the huge collection of fossils in the Rift Valley in Africa, chimps, why Ancient Greek men engaged in homosexual acts yet most weren’t gay, to why Mayans and Incas didn’t have the same level of cultural take-off as the West. Highly recommended.