Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A Foot in the River

Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Fern¿ez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198806806
• ISBN-10: 0198806809
• Artikelnr.: 48023235

Autorenporträt

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters 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 of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000), Millennium (Bantam, 1995), 1492: The Year Our World Began (Bloomsbury, 2010) , and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Weird Planet
1: Challenging Change
2: The Frustration of Science
3: The Great Re-Convergence
4: The Chimpanzees' Tea Party
5: The Limits of Evolution
6: The Imaginative Animal
7: Facing Acceleration
8: Towards the Planet of the Apes
In the Vatican Garden: Afterword and Acknowledgements
Notes
Index