num_pages: 704
description: Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Handss extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter life consciousness and humankind.This astonishing book provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation dark energy the selfish gene and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest possible prose it differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields such as string theory to approach a unified theory of everything. In doing so it challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology biology and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma.Its striking analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation complexification and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution.This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking.(67 black and white illustrations)
language: English
title: Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
publisher: Abrams Press