Pandora's Seed The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

Name: Pandora's Seed The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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ISBN: 9781400062157

ISBN-10: 1400062152

ISBN-13: 9781400062157

Edition: 2010

Authors: Spencer Wells

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InThe Journey of Man, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to our earliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of our distant past. Now, in his thrilling new book, he examines our cultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led us to the path we are on today, one he believes we must veer from in order to survive. Pandorars"s Seed takes us on a powerful and provocative globe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal event roughly ten thousand years ago, when our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers, setting in motion a momentous chain of events that…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Publication date: 6/8/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword



Mystery in the Map



Growing a New Culture



Diseased



Demented



Fast-Forward



Heated Argument



Toward a New Mythos


Acknowledgments


Sources and Further Reading


Index