The dynamic human / Maciej Henneberg & Arthur Saniotis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ACKNOWLEGMENT; Introduction: Our Place in Nature ; Origins: A Short History of a Long Journey ; AT THE END OF OUR JOURNEY, SO FAR, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT ABOUT BEING HUMAN?; The First Homo ; HUMAN ANCESTORS; THE ORIGINS OF MODERN HUMANS; The Problem of Species and its Handling by Anthropologists ; THERE IS STILL NO AGREEMENT TODAY; HOW SPECIES ARE CREATED?; H. erectus & The Hobbit; The Phenomenon of Evolution ; PHYSICAL DEFINITIONS OF ANIMALS AND MAMMALS; SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT; CONSERVATION OF DIVERSITY ; Extinction of Species

Children & Teenagers LIFE IS INFORMATION; Similar but Different ; MICROEVOLUTION; Living with Allurement: How the Universe Realises Itself ; INTRODUCTION; FALLING BY THE WAYSIDE; THE 'OTHERING' OF NATURE: HISTORIC PROCESSES; THE "NEW STORY"; THE ALLURING WAYS OF THE COSMOS; PANSPERMIA: IF WE ARE ALIENS; RETURNING TO THE CENTRE; PERSONIFYING THE CENTRE: RITUALISING ALLUREMENT ; ALLURING OUR BEING IN THE WORLD; Other Ways of Knowing: Retrieving the Shaman in Us ; SCIENTISM'S MARCH; THE SHAMAN'S WAY; THE DRAGON'S PSYCHE: EXPLORING NON-LOCAL MIND; THE SHAPESHIFTERS; THE ALCHEMICAL WORLD OF DREAMS

BEING LIKE GREEKSWhat of the Future? Getting Serious About the Brain and Cognitive Enhancement Technologies ; A BRAVE NEW WORLD; What's So Good About the Human Brain?; BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES; NON-MEDICAL USES OF BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES; WILL WE BECOME CYBORGS?; COSMETIC NEUROLOGY; NANOTECH BRAINS; References; SUBJECT INDEX

Annotation "The natural world can be viewed as a continuously changing complex system comprising variable units that do not conform to any stable plan. Within this framework, human evolution is not the story of the past that created Homo sapiens and then handed this "

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