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A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Description for A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution
Hardcover. Compared to other animals, the way humans live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - changes at a bewildering speed. Why is this? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
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 Fernandez-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers to these ... Read more
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 Fernandez-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers to these ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198744429
SKU
V9780198744429
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About Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history ... Read more
Reviews for A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution
This is a stimulating and wide-ranging read.
Network Review
Full of important insights into change and human history ... a powerful counter blast to those contemporary thinkers who think that evolution can explain just about everything.
Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper
everyone interested in the human animal and the concept of culture ought to read ... Read more
Network Review
Full of important insights into change and human history ... a powerful counter blast to those contemporary thinkers who think that evolution can explain just about everything.
Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper
everyone interested in the human animal and the concept of culture ought to read ... Read more