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The Accidental Homo Sapiens - Genetics, Behavior, and Free Will (Hardcover)
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The Accidental Homo Sapiens - Genetics, Behavior, and Free Will (Hardcover)
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When you think of evolution, the picture that most likely comes to
mind is a straight-forward progression, the iconic illustration of
a primate morphing into a proud, upright human being. But in
reality, random events have played huge roles in determining the
evolutionary histories of everything from lions to lobsters to
humans. However, random genetic novelties are most likely to become
fixed in small populations. It is mathematically unlikely that this
will happen in large ones. With our enormous, close-packed, and
seemingly inexorably expanding population, humanity has fallen
under the influence of the famous (or infamous) "bell curve." Ian
Tattersall and Rob DeSalle's revelatory new book explores what the
future of our species could hold, while simultaneously revealing
what we didn't become-and what we won't become. A cognitively
unique species, and our actions fall on a bell curve as well.
Individual people may be saintly or evil; generous or grasping;
narrow-minded or visionary. But any attempt to characterize our
species must embrace all of its members and so all of these
antitheses. It is possible not just for the species, but for a
single individual to be all of these things-even in the same day.
We all fall somewhere within the giant hyperspace of the human
condition that these curves describe. The Accidental Homo Sapiens
shows readers that though humanity now exists on this bell curve,
we are far from a stagnant species. Tattersall and DeSalle reveal
how biological evolution in modern humans has given way to a
cultural dynamic that is unlike anything else the Earth has ever
witnessed, and that will keep life interesting-perhaps sometimes
too interesting-for as long as we exist on this planet.
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