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Author : Fred Kohler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Evolution
ISBN : CORNELL:31924003045006
Author : Lecomte du Nouy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780679758945
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance–a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world.
Author : Del Thiessen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412818728
Bittersweet Destiny combines discourse on the evolution of human behavior with a philosophical perspective. It explores evolutionary theory aimed at determining human behavior. Del Thiessen presents this material against the broad background of everyday life, allowing the reader to see the theory of evolution as it has shaped his or her own behavior. However, he points out that when evolutionary theory is aimed at human behavior, the critics object, and controversy results. Thiessen argues that nothing in our lives makes sense unless we look at it through a biological lens. We can thereby understand our origin, our affiliation with all animals and plants, and our cultural destination. However, we can also discover a dark side to our destiny—our favoritism to those who share our own genes, our ability to deceive, and our capacity for abuse, rape, and murder. Good, bad, and indifferent, we serve the replication of our DNA. Critics extrapolate evolutionary theory to a wide range of animal species, and even human morphology and physiology, but when the same perspective is applied to human behavior there is strong dissent. What these critics fear, according to Thiessen, is that accepting evolutionary notions about human behavior strikes at the heart of free will, self-determination, and social equality. Bittersweet Destiny describes the heroic efforts of naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to unlock the secrets of evolution. It continues with a vivid description of our fossil history and our chance beginnings. From there the story implicates disease processes in evolution, highlights our rational and irrational nature, focuses on those characteristics of brain evolution and language that make us distinctive, and illustrates our most basic survival and reproductive mechanisms. Thiessen warns the reader that things are as they are no matter what we might wish; we ignore facts and controversy at our own risk. This book will be significant to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists.
Author : Lecomte du Noüy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Evolution
ISBN : OCLC:17516840
Author : Allerd Stikker
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780286228
Three Windows on Eternity is an exploratory voyage past the frontiers of our knowledge and scientific understanding. It has led the author to inspirational insights about the role of the individual human being in the current phase of the evolutionary process. The author takes the reader on a journey through evolution from the Big Bang to the 21st century. Based on scientific research and personal observation, he argues and concludes that of the 13.5 billion years of evolution, the first 10 billion years, a so-called inorganic evolutionary period lasting from the Big Bang until the emergence of life, was irrefutably governed by a magnificent design. By 'design' he does not mean 'intelligent' design but a state resulting from the eight fundamental constants of nature that emerged in the first nanoseconds following the birth of the universe. That state is a question of personal interpretation, inspired by religious belief or otherwise. The story of evolution presented in this book can raise awareness and inspiration in today's younger generations as they try to realize a controlled transition within the next 25 years, thus avoiding an uncontrolled overshoot/collapse scenario. In this respect, we are playing with time. The author is convinced that many young people who will populate the world in that period are keen to learn from the new story of evolution and are eager to act and contribute to a constructive new phase in that evolution in the 21st century.
Author : Del Thiessen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351292702
Bittersweet Destiny combines discourse on the evolution of human behavior with a philosophical perspective. It explores evolutionary theory aimed at determining human behavior. Del Thiessen presents this material against the broad background of everyday life, allowing the reader to see the theory of evolution as it has shaped his or her own behavior. However, he points out that when evolutionary theory is aimed at human behavior, the critics object, and controversy results. Thiessen argues that nothing in our lives makes sense unless we look at it through a biological lens. We can thereby understand our origin, our affiliation with all animals and plants, and our cultural destination. However, we can also discover a dark side to our destiny—our favoritism to those who share our own genes, our ability to deceive, and our capacity for abuse, rape, and murder. Good, bad, and indifferent, we serve the replication of our DNA. Critics extrapolate evolutionary theory to a wide range of animal species, and even human morphology and physiology, but when the same perspective is applied to human behavior there is strong dissent. What these critics fear, according to Thiessen, is that accepting evolutionary notions about human behavior strikes at the heart of free will, self-determination, and social equality. Bittersweet Destiny describes the heroic efforts of naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace to unlock the secrets of evolution. It continues with a vivid description of our fossil history and our chance beginnings. From there the story implicates disease processes in evolution, highlights our rational and irrational nature, focuses on those characteristics of brain evolution and language that make us distinctive, and illustrates our most basic survival and reproductive mechanisms. Thiessen warns the reader that things are as they are no matter what we might wish; we ignore facts and controversy at our own risk. This book will be significant to anthropologists, psychologists, biologists, and sociologists.
Author : David Michael Winfree,Diane Wilson,Cristo L. Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990705102
This book is based on the clairvoyant insights and teachings of Cristo L. Bowers and the spiritual insights of David Winfree. It explains how the human energy field evolves, its current state and its ultimate state, as individuals evolve and transform to higher levels of consciousness. It provides profound new insights about the Primary Chakra, directly below the feet, and the purpose and function of the Twelve Lines of Force that extend along the outer edges of the energy field. It provides a more complete understanding of the nature of the more than 30 archetypal patterns found within the human energy field, including the Monadic Archetype, Highest Archetypal Path in This Life, and the Devotional Heart Chakra Archetype; and the nature and function of the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Chakras, above the head. It explains the different types of healing energies, the role of the Palm Chakras, channels of healing energy, and the unique healing modality of each individual. It offers the most complete description yet pertaining to negative and positive beliefs and how to remove negative beliefs from one's energy field. New knowledge is also provided about the chakras, from the Crown to the Root and their interrelationships. Vibrational similitude (the foundation of the Law of Attraction) and how one may successfully utilize vibrational similitude in one's life is explained. The relationship between SPIRIT, Logos, Monad, Ego, and the individual Personality, and how the Personality may connect with the higher centers of consciousness is explored, along with the nature of the Logos, Monad, the Divine Cosmic Archetype, and the Expressive Phase and the Quiescent Phase of the Divine Cosmic Cycle, and how these influence us. Humanity's multidimensional nature; the paradox of unity, diversity, oneness, and individuated self; and the evolving interrelationship and interplay of consciousness, energy, and matter/form are illuminated. Significant beneficial information is shared regarding how individuals may raise their consciousness, achieve spiritual growth, and transform their energy fields to function at a much higher level.
Author : Eduard Hugo Strauch
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0820468320
The Creative Conscience as Human Destiny explains how human nature derived from our biogenetic evolution. Whereas human ingenuity and self-realization replicate nature's creativity (its morphogenesis), human conscience epitomizes the integration of organic life (its symbiosis). These mutual processes became incarnate as humanity's creative conscience. Similarly, the co-evolution of man and woman has enabled us to create cultures and civilization. From our intimation of a Supreme Being in nature, human beings have also evolved a supraconscience. By acknowledging the wisdom of nature, we have a philosophy of life for the future.
Author : Dave Hunt
Publisher : Berean Call
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681380129
Why are we here?And where are we going?Does science have an answer to these two most fundamental questions of human existence? Can mankind determine and direct the future of life on earth purely by scientific means? Plagued by the failure of modern science to explain the most pressing questions of human existence, many of today's postmoderns are once again boldly going where man has gone before in a desperate final quest for the hidden "holy grail" of cosmology.Erwin Schrödinger, the famed Austrian theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1933 for his contributions to quantum mechanics, confided: "[Science] knows nothing of . . . good or bad, God and eternity. . . . Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. . . . Science has no answer to it."Echoing this dilemma, British astrophysicist Sir Arthur S. Eddington, famous for his work on the theory of relativity in the early 20th century, also reasoned: "Thus, in the physical world, what a body does and what a body ought to do are equivalent; but we are well aware of another domain where they are anything but equivalent.... There is a clear distinction between natural law, which must be obeyed, and moral law, which ought to be obeyed. Ought takes us outside of physics and chemistry."Postmodern thinkers take pride in the perpetual pursuit ot knowledge--but the questions for readers now holding this book are clear: How will you recognize the seemingly elusive chalice of "ultimate truth" when it actually appears? And finally, what will you do with it when this coveted cup is within your grasp?In a sweeping panorama of inquiry and exploration, the timeless quest within these pages leads grail-seekers and skeptics alike to a destiny-altering consideration of the cosmos--and the question of human existence.
Author : John Fiske
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547237945
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Destiny of Man, Viewed in the Light of His Origin" by John Fiske. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780679763994
One of the most provocative science books ever published—"a feast of great thinking and writing about the most profound issues there are" (The New York Times Book Review). "Fiercely intelligent, beautifully written and engrossingly original." —The New York Times Book Review Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animaled one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics—as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. Illustrations.
Author : Mark B. Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400863808
This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also illuminates the development of evolutionary studies in Russia and in the West. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), a creator of the "evolutionary synthesis" and the author of its first modern statement, Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), founded modern Western population genetics and wrote many popular books on such topics as human evolution, race and racism, equality, and human destiny. In this, the first book devoted to an analysis of the historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions of Dobzhansky's life and thought, an international group of historians, biologists, and philosophers addresses the full span of his career in Russia and the United States. Beginning with the reminiscences of his daughter, Sophia Dobzhansky Coe, these essays cover Dobzhansky's Russian roots (Nikolai L. Krementsov, Daniel A. Alexandrov, Mikhail B. Konashev), the Morgan Lab (Garland E. Allen, William B. Provine, Robert E. Kohler, Richard M. Burian), his scientific legacy (Scott F. Gilbert, Bruce Wallace, Charles E. Taylor), and his social, political, philosophical, and religious thought (Costas B. Krimbas, John Beatty, Diane B. Paul, Michael Ruse). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Daniel Lieberman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307741806
A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawings throughout. “Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the making of our physicality.”—Nature In this book, Daniel E. Lieberman illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment and pursue better lifestyles.
Author : Seymour W. Itzkoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1453912568
