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Author : Elliott M. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970787347
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Secret Origin of the Human Species written by Elliott M. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178437
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Secret of Our Success written by Joseph Henrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Author : Dennis Bonnette
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493972
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Origin of the Human Species written by Dennis Bonnette and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the claims of scientific creationism versus materialistic evolution, while examining other scenarios. Consistently philosophical in methodology and perspective, the book is radically interdisciplinary in content, examining data and arguments drawn from natural science, philosophy, and theology. This work challenges the limits of human knowledge regarding every major question touching on human origins.
Author : Charles Lockwood
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402757471
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The Human Story written by Charles Lockwood and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology professor Charles Lockwood tells the amazing story of human evolution in a concise and compelling introduction to all our ancestors and extinct relatives. He draws on the explosion of discoveries made over the past 20 years to demystify the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to our origins, and describes the main sites, individual fossils, key scientific breakthroughs, and latest research that have fed our knowledge. With the help of a rich assortment of photographs, reconstructions, and maps, Lockwood takes us from the earliest hominins, who date back six or seven million years ago, to contemporary homo sapiens, providing the basic facts about each species: what it looked like, what it ate, how and when it lives, and how we know this information. Created in association with London’s Natural History Museum, this is a truly readable, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and user-friendly summary of the evidence as it stands today.
Author : Michael Tellinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438071
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Slave Species of the Gods written by Michael Tellinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA • Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet • Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA • Identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa as the city of the Anunnaki leader Enki Scholars have long believed that the first civilization on Earth emerged in Sumer some 6,000 years ago. However, as Michael Tellinger reveals, the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa and began with the arrival of the Anunnaki more than 200,000 years ago. Sent to Earth in search of life-saving gold, these ancient Anunnaki astronauts from the planet Nibiru created the first humans as a slave race to mine gold--thus beginning our global traditions of gold obsession, slavery, and god as dominating master. Revealing new archaeological and genetic evidence in support of Zecharia Sitchin’s revolutionary work with pre-biblical clay tablets, Tellinger shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA--which explains why less than 3 percent of our DNA is active. He identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa, complete with thousands of mines, as the city of Anunnaki leader Enki and explains their lost technologies that used the power of sound as a source of energy. Matching key mythologies of the world’s religions to the Sumerian clay tablet stories on which they are based, he details the actual events behind these tales of direct physical interactions with “god,” concluding with the epic flood--a perennial theme of ancient myth--that wiped out the Anunnaki mining operations. Tellinger shows that, as humanity awakens to the truth about our origins, we can overcome our programmed animalistic and slave-like nature, tap in to our dormant Anunnaki DNA, and realize the longevity and intelligence of our creators as well as learn the difference between the gods of myth and the true loving God of our universe.
Author : Christine Kenneally
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458798704
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Invisible History of the Human Race written by Christine Kenneally and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? What role does Neanderthal DNA play in our genetic makeup? How did the theory of eugenics embraced by Nazi Germany first develop? How is trust passed down in Africa, and silence inherited in Tasmania? How are private companies like Ancestry.com uncovering, preserving and potentially editing the past? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history. She breaks down myths of determinism and draws on cutting - edge research to explore how both historical artefacts and our DNA tell us where we have come from and where we may be going.
Author : Mark Pagel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393065871
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind written by Mark Pagel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Author : Dennis Bonnette
Publisher : Sapientia Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932589689
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Origin of the Human Species written by Dennis Bonnette and published by Sapientia Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin of the Human Species, a wide-ranging philosophical and interdisciplinary analysis of evolutionary theory, shows how authentic Christian teaching on Adam and Eve and Original Sin is fully compatible with legitimate modern science, without committing to young-Earth scientific creationism or a theistic evolutionism that compromises Christian belief. This expanded third edition includes two new appendices: the first defends a literal Adam and Eve against recent claims by some geneticists that a single mating pair of first true human parents is scientifically impossible; the second shows why a purely Darwinian naturalistic explanation for the evolution of new and essentially superior forms of life is philosophically impossible. This work resolves many philosophical and theological issues raised by evolutionary theory.
Author : Chris Stringer
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780141037202
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Our Species written by Chris Stringer and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? When did humans become 'modern' - are traits such as art, technology, language, ritual and belief unique to us? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? Chris Stringer has been involved in much of the crucial research into the origins of humanity, and here he draws on a wealth of evidence - from fossils and archaeology to Charles Darwin's theories and the mysteries of ancient DNA - to reveal the definitive story of where we came from, how we lived, how we got here and who we are. 'A new way of defining us and our place in history' Sunday Times 'When it comes to human evolution Chris Stringer is as close to the horse's mouth as it gets ... The Origin of Our Species should be the one-stop source on the subject. Read it now' BBC Focus 'Britain's foremost expert on human evolution ... you need a primer to make sense of the story so far. Here is that book' Guardian 'Combines anecdote and speculation with crisp explanation of the latest science in the study of the first humans ... an engaging read' New Scientist Chris Stringer is Britain's foremost expert on human origins and works in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum. He also currently directs the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, aimed at reconstructing the first detailed history of how and when Britain was occupied by early humans. His previous books include African Exodus- The Origins of Modern Humanity, The Complete World of Human Evolutionand most recently, Homo Britannicus, which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year in 2007.
Author : Francesca Ferrari Ferrari
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Secret Origins of Humanity written by Francesca Ferrari Ferrari and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the hidden depths of our history with "The Secret Origins of Humanity" a compelling work that stands out for its ability to challenge and enrich the collective understanding of our roots. This book is not simply a collection of theories; it is an open window into the infinite possibilities of our origin and evolution. A journey through alternative history: Accompanied by the research of luminaries such as Erich von Däniken, Graham Hancock, Michael Tellinger, Billy Carson, Drunvalo Melchizedek, Greg Braden, Mathias de Stefano, and Tim Tactical, this text represents an unprecedented investigation of the boldest theories that have the power to rewrite our history. A narrative that captures the imagination: With engaging prose and in-depth analysis, "The Secret Origins of Humanity" invites readers on a critical exploration of mysterious artifacts and archaeological sites that could reveal new truths about our past. For the curious and open-minded: If you're fascinated by unsolved mysteries and lost civilizations, this book is your passport to a journey that could transform your perception of human history. It is an ideal work for those seeking to look beyond conventional historical narratives and for those ready to consider a much different story from the accepted one. More than just a book: "The Secret Origins of Humanity" is an invitation to explore with an open and critical mind, to challenge accepted hypotheses, and to engage in an intellectual dialogue that could change the way we see ourselves and our world. Here's what you'll find in this book (but there's much more!) and get ready to be inspired: BEYOND EARTHLY: ERICH VON DÄNIKEN'S REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS CHARIOTS OF THE GODS: ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS AND THE REWRITING OF HUMAN ORIGINS CROP CIRCLES AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL SIGNS BEYOND CHEOPS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT PYRAMID CELESTIAL CODES: EXTRATERRESTRIAL HERITAGE AND THE REVELATIONS OF ENOCH UNIVERSAL FLOOD: GLOBAL MYTHOLOGIES AND ANCIENT ASTRONOMY ANCIENT HYBRIDS: TRACES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL GENETIC ENGINEERING IN HISTORY CELESTIAL CITIES AND DIVINE CHARIOTS: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND TEACHINGS OF THE GODS IN ANCIENT INDIA SACRED LINES AND HIDDEN GEOMETRIES: A PREHISTORIC LEGACY TRACED ACROSS EUROPE CONTACT AGES: EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITS FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY GODS AMONG THE STARS: THE SEARCH FOR OUR COSMIC ORIGINS LOST CITIES IN THE SEAS: ECHOES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS GRAHAM HANCOCK'S THEORIES ON ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF CATASTROPHES AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS ANCIENT CATASTROPHES AND COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: GRAHAM HANCOCK'S REVOLUTIONARY THEORIES ON HUMAN HISTORY CRANIAL DEFORMATION AND ELONGATED SKULLS: TRACING THE ENIGMATIC HERITAGE OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS THE ANCIENT BOND: FROM THE ORIGINS OF MAN TO THE STELLAR KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOGON GIANTS AMONG US: DISCOVERING THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT MEGALITHS AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS GOBEKLI TEPE AND THE MYSTERY OF TABBY'S STAR THE DRACONIAN HERITAGE OF THE ANNUNAKI ACCORDING TO MICHAEL TELLINGER ANOMALIES AND OUT-OF-PLACE ARTIFACTS: MICHAEL TELLINGER'S REVELATION Discover "The Secret Origins of Humanity" a journey that challenges accepted history. Join luminaries like Erich von Däniken and Graham Hancock in an exploration that could reveal new truths about our past. Ideal for those seeking truth beyond conventional narratives. Get your copy now and start your adventure into untold history!
Author : Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062316109
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Sapiens written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.
Author : Aeolus Kephas
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935487515
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Homo Serpiens written by Aeolus Kephas and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homo Serpiens investigates the millennia-long "psi-opa known as culture and the various socio-religious systems of worship that have shaped and directed humanity's evolution until now. Mapping a flow of archetypes, beliefs, and practices from Ancient Egypt, through the wilderness with Moses and the Israelites, into the Ministry of Christ, the Gnostic movement and the inception of Christianity, Aleister Crowley's Law of Thelema, Hitler and the National Socialists, and finally the UFO contact cults and alien abduction rituals of modern times, Homo Serpiens unveils an occult agenda behind history and the mythic narrative of Masonic Sorcery Theater that drives it. Drawing on the works of C.G. Jung, Rudolph Steiner, and Philip K. Dick, this work interprets all human and even trans-human manipulations as side effects of an even deeper process of DNA-activation, Kundalini rising, and species mutation, from personal to galactic consciousness, into 2012 and beyond. Homo Serpiens is a grimoire for the end times. Chapters include: A Fellowship of the Rings; Homoplasmate and Apotheosis of Species; The Egyptian Strand; The Judaic Strand; The Aiwaz Working; The Nazi Strain; The Humalien Agenda and the Return of "the Godsa; The Goddess Revival; The Lucifer Coil; more. Aeolus Kephas has dedicated much of his life to the study of philosophy, world folklore, comparative religion, Jungian psychology, parapolitics, and the so-called "paranormal.a He has traveled extensively throughout his life and continues to do so. He has lived on three different continents. Kephas is devoted to mapping worlds both inner and outer. He is currently hosting a podcast, "Stormy Weather: News from the Front Line in the End Times, a as well as setting up "Crisis-Gnosis Management, a an "Existential Detective Agency.a His twenty-year researches for The Lucid View and Homo Serpiens have led him into the realms of paranoid awareness, surrealism, mind control, ritual abuse, shamanism, demonology, and alien abductions. Against all odds, he has kept his sense of humor intact.
Author : J.H. Brennan
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468308696
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Whisperers written by J.H. Brennan and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From the hair-raising to the eyebrow-raising, this is a scintillating account of meetings with spirits through history” (Mark Booth, New York Times–bestselling author). It may seem incredible, but as bestselling novelist and occult expert J.H. Brennan reveals in this eye-opening new history, there is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the disembodied voices of spirits may have subtly directed the course of human events. In Whisperers, Brennan explores how the “spirit world”—whether we believe in it or not—has influenced our own since the dawn of civilization. With a novelist’s flair and a scholar’s keen eye, Brennan details the supernatural affinities of world leaders from King Nebuchadnezzar to Adolf Hitler, showing how the decisions and policies of each have been shaped by their supernatural beliefs and encounters. Brennan also examines the impact of visions, from shamanism in native cultures to prophets such as Joan of Arc. Chronicling millennia of contact between the spirit world and our own, Whisperers presents an entirely new and different way to look at history. “Prolific Irish author and lecturer Brennan’s lifelong fascination with psychic phenomena fuels this comprehensive analysis of potential supernatural influences on history. . . . Certain hokum for skeptics, but the more open-minded will savor this chillingly convincing testimonial.” —Kirkus Reviews “J.H. Brennan is an expert storyteller who paints an often terrifying picture of how human destiny has regularly been changed forever by individuals convinced they were in communication with intelligences from beyond. In Whisperers, Brennan has created a unique and timely history of spirit voices that is both brilliant and utterly chilling.” —Andrew Donkin, coauthor of Illegal
Author : Brian Hare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0399590668
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Survival of the Friendliest written by Brian Hare and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, counterintuitive new theory of human nature arguing that our evolutionary success depends on our ability to be friendly--from a pair of trailblazing scientists and New York Times bestselling authors. For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own original research, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and his wife Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, offer a powerful, elegant new theory called "self-domestication" which suggests that we have succeeded not because we were the smartest or strongest but because we are the friendliest. This explanation flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," scientists have confused fitness with strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. But what helped us innovate where other primates did not is our knack for coordinating with and listening to others. We can find common cause and identity with both neighbors and strangers if we see them as "one of us." This ability makes us geniuses at cooperation and innovation and is responsible for all the glories of culture and technology in human history. But this gift for friendliness comes at cost. If we perceive that someone is not "one of us," we are capable of unplugging them from our mental network. Where there would have been empathy and compassion, there is nothing, making us both the most tolerant and the most merciless species on the planet. To counteract the rise of tribalism in all aspects of modern life, Hare and Woods argue, we need to expand our empathy and friendliness to include people who aren't obviously like ourselves. Brian Hare's groundbreaking research was developed in close collaboration with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution. Survival of the Friendliest explains both our evolutionary success and our potential for cruelty in one stroke and sheds new light onto everything from genocide and structural inequality to art and innovation.
Author : Toni Bondi
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (326 download)
Download or read book History Book written by Toni Bondi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _The intention of a hidden history of humanity project is to reestablish the correct chronology and timelines for human history, that's part of it the other part of of it is that humanity is disempowered and not knowing its true origins or all indeed the chronology, so to establish the correct chronology and the understanding of the root races how humanity came into being and how the evolution of consciousness perceived from there is going to empower humanity, with knowing the truth humanity has is having the truth hidden from it at this point in time, but it is actually emerging we have light emerging we have truth emerging, and this is happening exoteric li in parallel with this esoteric emergence of of the ageless wisdom teachings._The possibility of discovering and understanding the origin of the human soul and it's divine pedigree is imminent in our time, we stand before a doorway leading to planetary illumination upon the greatest mysteries of life the hidden history of humanity._This book focuses on the evolution of consciousness over millions of years, reveals the secret chronology of human history, from ancient Lemuria and Atlantis, to our current roots, while following the natural periodic delusions of races._Evolution will be traced back to the emergence of the human race in several stages, and it reveals a variety of cultures, including The Atlantis, the Bodes and the Indians. From the religious angle some of the most ancient works will be referenced in the Hindu Jewish Persian Islamic Buddhist Gnostic Celtic and Christian traditions.
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198041177
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Why Humans Cooperate written by Joseph Henrich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393343022
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain written by Terrence W. Deacon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
