Being a human : adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness
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Published
New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
155.7 Fos
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155.7 Fos
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Published
New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-379).
Description
"A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--,Provided by publisher.
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How did humans come to be who we are? Foster explores three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness in order to understand perhaps the strangest animal of all: the human being. Readers will experience the Upper Paleolithic era as a Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer, living in makeshift shelters without amenities in the rural woods of England. For the Neolithic period, when humans stayed in one place and domesticated plants and animals, they learn about a Neolithic settlement. To explore the Enlightenment, Foster finds his world and himself bizarre and disembodied, and he rues the atrophy of our senses, the cause for much of what ails us. -- adapted from jacket
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