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  • Another Big Bang

    Evolution of Civilization. Freedom all the way

    by Santanu Mitra ...
    Even 12,000 years ago, our ancestors were living in forests, off hunting and gathering as livelihood options. Now we are planning to settle on Mars. How could this feat be achieved? Santanu was always interested in this question. In the search for an answer, he has attempted to come up with a multi-disciplinary unifying theory of evolution of human civilisation which says that our civilisation had ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Another Big Bang EVOLUTION OF CIVILISATION Freedom all the way

    by Santanu Mitra ...
    Even 12,000 years ago, our ancestors were living in forests, relying on hunting and gathering as their primary means of subsistence. We are now planning to settle on Mars. How could this feat be achieved? Santanu was always interested in this question. In his research for an answer, he has attempted to develop a multidisciplinary unifying theory of the evolution of human civilization, which ... Read more

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    Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

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  • Why We Believe

    Evolution and the Human Way of Being

    by Agustin Fuentes ...
    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    An "impressive" wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human (Justin Barret, American Scientist ).Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. ... Read more

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  • Within Reason

    Rationality and Human Behavior

    by Donald Calne ...
    It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Human Ancestry

    Power, Sex and Tradition

    Edited by Stephen Shennan, James Steele ...
    Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... Read more

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  • Cultural Evolution

    How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture & Synthesize the Social Sciences

    by Alex Mesoudi ...
    Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets ... Read more

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  • The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

    by Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson ...
    Series series Evolution and Cognition
    Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, ... Read more

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  • A Foot in the River

    Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution

    by Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values -- seems to be changing ... Read more

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  • Human Prehistory

    Exploring the Past to Understand the Future

    by Deborah Barsky ...
    This book provides a concise overview of human prehistory. It shows how an understanding of the distant past offers new perspectives on present-day challenges facing our species - and how we can build a sustainable future for all life on planet Earth. Deborah Barsky tells a fascinating story of the long-term evolution of human culture and provides up-to-date examples from the archaeological record ... Read more

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  • A Different Kind of Animal

    How Culture Transformed Our Species

    by Robert Boyd ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any other creature alive. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability ... Read more

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