How Did We Get To be So Different?

How Did We Get To be So Different?

The second book in the four-part series debates the steps that led to us being so completely different to anything that had ever appeared before. If we really were just another kind of animal off the production line of life, then what were the revolutions that turbo-charged our abilities?...
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The second book in the four-part series debates the steps that led to us being so completely different to anything that had ever appeared before. If we really were just another kind of animal off the production line of life, then what were the revolutions that turbo-charged our abilities?
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The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly, needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters for years after reading! O'Connor's easy-going, conversational style brings an outsider's questioning eye to the great forces behind life. The second book in the four-part series debates the steps that led to us being so completely different to anything that had ever appeared before. If we really were just another kind of animal off the production line of life, then what were the revolutions that turbo-charged our abilities? How is it possible that we only arrived a fluttering of an eyelash ago compared to evolutionary time, yet we are now so completely dominant over everything else in life?Book Two also sets out to answer the questions around what we did that meant we could alter ourselves in an instant, and so avoid being stuck in an evolutionary niche like every other organism.Why, for example, was it such a huge step forward when we began to run? Why was the taming of fire arguably the most important thing we ever did? How did we manage to create the intelligence and insights that allowed us to make our own life decisions? Why was gossiping so critical?With the same writing approach that typified Book One, in How Did We Get To Be So Different? O'Connor sets out to answer these and other questions by summarising the views of the great biologists, anthropologists, and revolutionary theorists - and then adding some opinions of his own.. Example questions posed (and answered) in Book Two -How Did We Get To Be So Different?If we have a degree of control over our lives, then why were our rulers always so horrible- and why did we put up with them?Why do we copy each other so much, and yet we'd accept that others could be so unbelievably violent?How did fire make us so different?Where did the free will come from that let us override the drives of our animal pasts - something that no other organism had ever managed before in the long history of evolution? How did we develop language?Why was gossip so critical?How did printing and reading completely change our world?

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Er du nysgjerrig på hva som har gjort oss mennesker så unike? I boken How Did We Get To be So Different? tar forfatter O'Connor deg med på en fascinerende reise gjennom evolusjonens mysterier. Dette er den andre boken i serien Secrets of Life, og den leverer ikke bare interessante fakta, men også tankevekkende spørsmål som vil få deg til å tenke.

Viktige spørsmål som boken undersøker

  • Hvordan oppnådde vi fri vilje som ingen andre organismer i historien?
  • Hvorfor var det et nødvendig skritt da vi begynte å løpe?
  • Hvilken rolle spilte oppdagelsen av ild i vår utvikling?
  • Hvordan utviklet vi språket, og hvilken betydning hadde sladder?

En ny forståelse av vår art med 'How Did We Get To be So Different?'

O'Connor kombinerer en lettfattelig, samtaleaktig stil med innsikter fra kjente biologer, antropologer og teoriens forkjempere. Han drøfter hvordan menneskelige egenskaper skiller seg fra andre arter og klargjør de revolusjonerende endringene som har formet vår utvikling. Eksempelvis diskuterer han hvordan pirrende øyeblikk i vår fortid har ført til at vi ikke lenger er "bare et annet dyr" på livets produksjonslinje.

Hvorfor du trenger 'How Did We Get To be So Different?'

Denne boken er perfekt for dem som ønsker å forstå mer om menneskets plass i naturen. Med dens engasjerende fortellinger vil du ikke bare bli informert, men også underholdt. How Did We Get To be So Different? er ikke bare en bok om fortiden; det er en refleksjon av vår nåtid og en inspirasjon for fremtiden.

Ta et dypdykk inn i disse fascinerende emnene, og bli en del av samtalen om hva som virkelig gjør oss spesielle!

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