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Humanity’s Evolutionary Destiny - Seymour W. Itzkoff

Humanity’s Evolutionary Destiny

A Darwinian Perspective
Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2016 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-2545-4 (ISBN)
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In this volume, Itzkoff discusses evolutionary history. Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology.
Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by any of the existing racial categories, rather, intellectual and cultural behavior. They can be symbolized as Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens.
In evolutionary history, no two sub-species have ever been able to cohabit a limited ecology. The outcome of this inherent selective conflict is written in the history of the human genus Homo, that is, the successive increases in brain size and intelligence and the disappearance of earlier, less corticalized forms of Homo. Civilization will eventually be shaped by the domination of Homo sapiens sapiens.

Seymour W. Itzkoff majored in music and social sciences in his undergraduate studies at the University of Hartford. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in the philosophy of science and philosophy of education from Columbia University. For a number of years he was a professional cellist. He is the author of twenty-five books in various disciplines. He taught primarily at Smith College, from which he is emeritus after thirty-four years of teaching.

Contents: – Dynamic Progressions – Originating Adaptations of Animal Life – We Dominating Mammals – The Primate Pathway – Homo: Wherefrom? – Natural Selection of Homo – Cro-Magnon – Homo sapiens sapiens – Evolutionary Outcomes – Homo sapiens sapiens: A Unique Animal Intelligence – Civilization: Symbolic Dynamics – Civilizational Dynamics: Exemplars – Symbolic Thought: The Universal, the Plural – Cro-Magnon’s Progeny: The Modern Mind – Dream of a Universal Humanity – Natural Selection of Humanity – Reality Suppressed – Our Twenty-First Century and Beyond – Conditions of International Survival – Utopia Interdict – The United States in Transition – Catastrophe, Renewal, and Law – Destiny.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.2.2016
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 230 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4331-2545-5 / 1433125455
ISBN-13 978-1-4331-2545-4 / 9781433125454
Zustand Neuware
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