Being a human : adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness / Charles Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Charles, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human behavior--Evolution.

Human behavior.

Consciousness--History.

Consciousness.

History.

Evolutionary psychology.

Human evolution.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Adventures in 40,000 years of consciousness

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

Summary:

"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.

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

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Upper Palaeolithic

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

pt. 2 Neolithic

pt. 3 Enlightenment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-379).

Other Format:

Online version: Foster, Charles, 1962- Being a human.

ISBN:

9781250783714

1250783712

OCLC:

1226172336