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Cosmosapiens : Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, Paperback / softback Book

Cosmosapiens : Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe Paperback / softback

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A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O.

WilsonSpecialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?

John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious quest brings together our scientific knowledge and evaluates the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind. Cosmosapiens provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene, and neurogenetic determinism.

In clear and accessible language, Hands differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields such as string theory to approach a unified theory of everything.

In doing so he challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma.

His striking analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexification, and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution.

This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking.

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