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1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 244 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781453912560
Inhalt:
Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by any of the existing racial categories, rather, intellectual and cultural behavior. They can be symbolized as Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens.In evolutionary history, no two sub-species have ever been able to cohabit a limited ecology. The outcome of this inherent selective conflict is written in the history of the human genus Homo, that is, the successive increases in brain size and intelligence and the disappearance of earlier, less corticalized forms of Homo. Civilization will eventually be shaped by the domination of Homo sapiens sapiens
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«This would be a terrific first book for a high school student or early undergraduate. It is well written and engaging, and the author cares and shows this. This volume is a great way to get young minds kick-started.»(Michael Ruse, The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 93, Number 1/2018)
Inhalt:
Contents: – Dynamic Progressions – Originating Adaptations of Animal Life – We Dominating Mammals – The Primate Pathway – Homo: Wherefrom? – Natural Selection of Homo – Cro-Magnon – Homo sapiens sapiens – Evolutionary Outcomes – Homo sapiens sapiens: A Unique Animal Intelligence – Civilization: Symbolic Dynamics – Civilizational Dynamics: Exemplars – Symbolic Thought: The Universal, the Plural – Cro-Magnon’s Progeny: The Modern Mind – Dream of a Universal Humanity – Natural Selection of Humanity – Reality Suppressed – Our Twenty-First Century and Beyond – Conditions of International Survival – Utopia Interdict – The United States in Transition – Catastrophe, Renewal, and Law – Destiny
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781433125454
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Itzkoff, Seymour W., 1928 - Humanity's evolutionary destiny New York : Peter Lang, 2016 ISBN 9781433125454
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Mensch
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Evolution
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Hominisation
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Kulturelle Evolution
;
Zivilisationsprozess
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1256-0
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Itzkoff, Seymour W. 1928-
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