Itzkoff Humanity’s Evolutionary Destiny

A Darwinian Perspective
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4539-1256-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Web PDF

Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by any of the existing racial categories, rather, intellectual and cultural behavior. They can be symbolized as Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens. In evolutionary history, no two sub-species have ever been able to cohabit a limited ecology. The outcome of this inherent selective conflict is written in the history of the human genus Homo, that is, the successive increases in brain size and intelligence and the disappearance of earlier, less corticalized forms of Homo. Civilization will eventually be shaped by the domination of Homo sapiens sapiens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Itzkoff, Seymour W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Intelligenz, Denken, Problemlösen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: – Dynamic Progressions – Originating Adaptations of Animal Life – We Dominating Mammals – The Primate Pathway – Homo: Wherefrom? – Natural Selection of Homo – Cro-Magnon – Homo sapiens sapiens – Evolutionary Outcomes – Homo sapiens sapiens: A Unique Animal Intelligence – Civilization: Symbolic Dynamics – Civilizational Dynamics: Exemplars – Symbolic Thought: The Universal, the Plural – Cro-Magnon’s Progeny: The Modern Mind – Dream of a Universal Humanity – Natural Selection of Humanity – Reality Suppressed – Our Twenty-First Century and Beyond – Conditions of International Survival – Utopia Interdict – The United States in Transition – Catastrophe, Renewal, and Law – Destiny.

Über Autor(innen)

Seymour W. Itzkoff majored in music and social sciences in his undergraduate studies at the University of Hartford. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in the philosophy of science and philosophy of education from Columbia University. For a number of years he was a professional cellist. He is the author of twenty-five books in various disciplines. He taught primarily at Smith College, from which he is emeritus after thirty-four years of teaching.