None of us know the whole story.

Imagine for a minute that the story was first told fifty thousand years ago, around a primitive camp fire, following a vision or dream.

Then that story is retold and retold down hundreds of generations, until it is finally written down.

Imagine that it is the story of the cognitive revolution — the moment our ancestors became human. We developed advanced understanding of the implications of our actions, but at terrible cost: Eve’s “punishment” in bearing children with larger heads. Not a punishment as such, but a consequence.

And we wear clothing to hide our nakedness because of climate change, using shelters because we can no longer sleep under the stars.

We move on from lives of simplicity and innocence into lives where we have to plan to survive.

Now try explaining those ideas to a caveman, and suddenly the whole thing makes sense.