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A foot in the river : why our lives change - and the limits of evolution / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--History.
- Human beings.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling,sometimes terrifying. Why is this?In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidenc
- Contents:
- Weird planet
- Challenging change
- The frustration of science
- The great reconvergence
- The Chimpanzees' Tea Party
- The limits of evolution
- The imaginative animal
- Facing acceleration
- Towards the planet of the apes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-106185-9
- 0-19-106184-0
- OCLC:
- 915311456
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