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Progress Unchained - Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future (Hardcover)
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Progress Unchained - Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future (Hardcover)
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Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress
using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of
human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as
the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal.
The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with
humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a
development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism
reconfigured biological progress as a 'tree of life' with multiple
lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by
the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular
writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human
progress, with competing technological innovations producing
ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea
of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of
alternative futures have been imagined.
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