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Cosmosapiens

John Hands

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Description for Cosmosapiens Paperback. The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 261 x 63. Weight in Grams: 922.
A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious quest brings together our scientific knowledge and evaluates the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind. ... Read more

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Publisher

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

704

Place of Publication

, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780715651216

SKU

V9780715651216

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About John Hands

John Hands has devoted more than ten years to evaluating scientific theories about human evolution from the origin of the universe. He graduated in chemistry from the University of London and co-authored two research studies and published one book in the social sciences. He was the founding Director of the Government's Co-operative Housing Agency and served on three Government committees. ... Read more

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[Hands] makes us realise how much we don't know. From his book we get that big picture he sought
Professor David Knight, author of The Making of Modern Science A fine book... brave, very wide ranging, synoptic
Professor Stuart Kauffman, author of At Home in the Universe Hands's voyage of inquiry will not only educate you, it will ... Read morealso surprise
Derek Shearer, Director, McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, Los Angeles An audacious and admirable book... written with engaging style, and the strongest scientific ideas across a swathe of fields in physics and biology are presented lucidly
Larry Steinman, Professor of Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Any conventional Darwinist (and I am one of them) will find a lot to take exception to: but disagreement is the fuel of progress and if you enjoy an argument this is the book for you
Professor Steve Jones, author of The Language of the Genes This book is an intellectual tour-de-force...highly recommended for anyone wishing to get a deeper insight into the fundamental but typically arcane theories that purport to explain where we and the universe that surrounds us are coming from
Professor Francis Heylighen, Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Group, Free University of Brussels A work as bold, broad, and challenging as this will no doubt tweak the bias any one of us may have regarding a particular event, but, then, so did Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Jeffrey Schwartz, Professor of Physical Anthropology and of The History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh A game-changer. In the tradition of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this lucidly written, penetrating analysis challenges us to rethink many things we take for granted about ourselves, our society, and our universe. It will become a classic
Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College John Hands has done a remarkable job of disentangling the many topics that are long overdue for reinterpretation. The enormous effort he has made to cover so many evolutionary questions is heroic... A major accomplishment
Professor James Shapiro, author of Evolution: A View From The 21st Century Even in cases where one might disagree, the arguments are thought-provoking
Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Princeton University A magisterial, persuasive and thought provoking survey of the horizons of modern science
Dr James Le Fanu, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine This is a truly exceptional piece of work
Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge From dark energy to the selfish gene, Hands looks at how we know what we know - and what we don't. An overview of current thought on this ever fascinating subject
The Observer
Audacious, ambitious, and philosophically completist study... a thoughtful treatise for the eternally curious
Starred review, Publishers Weekly
Lucid and intelligible to the non-specialists... a book of astonishing ambition and scope
Tim Crane
Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A substantial, sceptical survey of the current state of scientific knowledge of about the most basic questions... An invaluable, encyclopedic achievement
A.N. Wilson
Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us about the origin and evolution of humanity in the universe, start to finish. It's encyclopedic sweep can be read straight through or browsed in parts of special interest.'
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