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How Did We Get To be So Different? (Paperback)
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How Did We Get To be So Different? (Paperback)
Series: The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang to Trump, Two
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Loot Price R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly,
needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters
for years after reading! O'Connor's easy-going, conversational
style brings an outsider's questioning eye to the great forces
behind life. The second book in the four-part series debates the
steps that led to us being so completely different to anything that
had ever appeared before. If we really were just another kind of
animal off the production line of life, then what were the
revolutions that turbo-charged our abilities? How is it possible
that we only arrived a fluttering of an eyelash ago compared to
evolutionary time, yet we are now so completely dominant over
everything else in life? Book Two also sets out to answer the
questions around what we did that meant we could alter ourselves in
an instant, and so avoid being stuck in an evolutionary niche like
every other organism. Why, for example, was it such a huge step
forward when we began to run? Why was the taming of fire arguably
the most important thing we ever did? How did we manage to create
the intelligence and insights that allowed us to make our own life
decisions? Why was gossiping so critical? With the same writing
approach that typified Book One, in How Did We Get To Be So
Different? O'Connor sets out to answer these and other questions by
summarising the views of the great biologists, anthropologists, and
revolutionary theorists - and then adding some opinions of his
own.. Example questions posed (and answered) in Book Two - How Did
We Get To Be So Different? If we have a degree of control over our
lives, then why were our rulers always so horrible- and why did we
put up with them? Why do we copy each other so much, and yet we'd
accept that others could be so unbelievably violent? How did fire
make us so different? Where did the free will come from that let us
override the drives of our animal pasts - something that no other
organism had ever managed before in the long history of evolution?
How did we develop language? Why was gossip so critical? How did
printing and reading completely change our world?
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