This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future...Masterful. Galor answers the ultimate mystery Lewis DartnellThe stunning advances that have transformed human experience in recent centuries are no accident of history - they are the result of universal and timeless forces, operating since the dawn of our species. Drawing on a lifetimes scientific investigation, Oded Galors ground-breaking new vision overturns a host of long-held assumptions to reveal the deeper causes that have shaped the journey of humanity:Education rather than industrialisationFamily size and gender equality as much as inventions and technologyGeography and diversity rather than wars, disease and famineUnparalleled in its scope and ambition . . . All readers will learn something Washington PostAn inspiring, readable, jargon-free and almost impossibly erudite masterwork New StatesmanHis optimism about humanity shines through ObserverIf you need an evidence-based antidote to doomscrolling, here it is Guardian