Descent of Man Revisited World History: The Hidden Clue to Human Evolution

by John Landon

Overview

Descent of Man Revisited deals with the questions of world history and human emergence, as it explores issues of evolutionary theory, biological self-organization, and the history of biological thought, from the period of Lamarck and the predecessors of Darwin. The relationship of evolution to history remains a source of confusion, and the text explores this problem, along with the issues of non-random emergence visible in the archaeological record. This invites a close look at the data of the so-called Axial Age. Included is a new perspective on the rise of modernity, and the debates over secularism. The text contains a set of outlines of world history, attempting to examine the idea of 'evolutionary chronicles' as the early emergence of man passes through a transition from 'evolution to history'. This idea requires considering the idea of the 'evolution of freedom'. This creates a connection with issues of so-called Big History, and the classical philosophy of history. There are many additional topics discussed, from the evolution of ethics, and consciousness, to the riddle of evolutionary enlightenment, finally to the question of the 'first and last man', an idea from Olaf Stapleton, in a consideration of the future evolution of man, in the 'conclusion' or 'self-evolutionary epilog' of homo sapiens.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014772181
Publisher:	South Fork Books
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Landon a classical scholar, mathematician, student of oriental religion, poet, and author of World History And The Eonic Effect, a study of history and evolution. I was born in 1945, am an American, but lived in Africa twice, once as a child, then as a Peace Corps volunteer. I attended Groton School, then Columbia College, where I majored in classics.
You can find my websites+ links to my blogs at history-and-evolution.com, darwiniana.com and facebook.

Editorial Reviews

The ideology of the modern west raises "choice" to the highest good. No surprise then that in matters of religion we are offered two basic modes of intellectual servitude. Either we can stick with the eternally, omnipotent, and omnipresent God who spoke to Moses, and then to Jesus, and then to Muhammed; or we can kick him off the throne and instead place up there a bearded English patriarch--one whose followers regard as the revealer of an omnipresent and omnipotent force i.e. natural selection.

Jim Buck