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The Human Condition de Robert G. Bednarik

The Human Condition: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

Autor Robert G. Bednarik
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2013
This book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution. It challenges current consensus views fundamentally, presenting in its support a mass of evidence, much of which has never been assembled before. This evidence derives primarily from archaeology, paleoanthropology, genetics, clinical psychology, neurosciences, linguistics and cognitive sciences. No even remotely similar thesis of recent human origins has ever been published, but some of the key elements of this book have been published by the author in major refereed journals in the last two years. Its implications are far-reaching and profoundly affect the way we perceive ourselves as a species. This book about what it means to be human is heavily referenced, with a bibliography of many hundreds of scientific entries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781461429821
ISBN-10: 146142982X
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: XX, 207 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:2011
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Seria Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects

Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

Public țintă

Graduate

Cuprins

1 A little epistemology.- The expulsion of Eve.- 3 The hard evidence.- 4 Seafaring, beads and external hard drives.- 5 An alternative paradigm.- 6 The bigger picture.- 7 Advanced cognition and neurodegenerative diseases: a Faustian deal
 

Recenzii

From the reviews:
“Bednarik (International Federation of Rock Art Organizations), an Australia-based scholar, has spent his enormously productive career challenging perceived wisdom. … The author assembles the evidence and arguments for an alternative theory of human origins. The theory includes a multiregional origin of humans from robust hominids and so challenges the ‘out of Africa’ model of a single origin from gracile hominids. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” (B. K. Hall, Choice, Vol. 49 (6), February, 2012)

Notă biografică

Robert G. Bednarik, born in Vienna but an Australian since 1970, contradicts norms. He has undertaken numerous expeditions crossing the sea on rafts built with stone tools, but he cannot swim; he has produced 1165 academic publications, including many books, but has no formal education; he edits three scientific journals and two series of monographs, but not in his native language. As a complete autodidact, he regards himself as ignorant as did Socrates. Consequently his principal interest is the origin of the human ability to create constructs of reality, and in a wide variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest.

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Although the human condition can also be considered in metaphysical, ideological or ontological terms, in this book it is examined from a purely scientific perspective: what has occurred in the evolution of our species that led to the emergence of such a remarkable primate? In reviewing the limited empirical evidence we have about our distant past, some favored interpretations are replaced with hitherto unexplored alternatives. The relatively recent reduction of human brain size and physical robusticity, loss of estrus, development of neoteny and of numerous deleterious or maladaptive genetic syndromes, including neurodegenerative illnesses, are all attributed to one cause: the rise of culturally mediated behavior, including deliberate mate choice based on cultural constructs. This shift, introduced roughly 40,000 years ago, replaced both natural selection and genetic drift with the laws of domestication. Homo sapiens sapiens is thus the product of his own but unintended self-domestication. This revolutionary new hypothesis solves several conundrums in paleoanthropology, neuroscience and the cognitive sciences. But in a broader perspective, it also explains how the contradictions, tensions and enigmas of human existence came into existence and can be rationally accounted for. The Human Condition, therefore, strives to explain the very origins and characteristics of what it means to be human.
About the Author

Robert G. Bednarik, born in Vienna but an Australian since 1970, contradicts norms. He has undertaken numerous expeditions crossing the sea on rafts built with stone tools, but he cannot swim; he has produced 1165 academic publications, including many books, but has no formal education; he edits three scientific journals and two series of monographs, but not in his native language. As a complete autodidact, he regards himself as ignorant as did Socrates. Consequently his principal interest is the origin of thehuman ability to create constructs of reality, and in a wide variety of fields providing supplementary information in that quest.

Caracteristici

The book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution. This book about what it means to be human is heavily referenced, with a bibliography of many hundreds of scientific entries. The relevant archaeological, paleoanthropological and genetic evidence is painstakingly assembled. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras