Mind Evolution

“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles.

We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand. This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking science, and thrilling surprises. Discover how memory has almost nothing to do with the past.

Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom — the Metazoa— they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.

Self Comes to Mind is a nuanced and original chronicle of the evolution of the human brain. It reveals how the brain's development of a self becomes a challenge to nature's indifference and opens the way for the appearance of culture, a radical break in the course of evolution.

After two months in Skyhome, Alex and the crew are ready to depart for the next phase of their mission - convincing Emperor Augustus of the Nova Roman Empire to join them in their attack on the Great Blight. But when they enter the Empire's borders, they find far more than they bargained for: slavers, deadly beasts, and the cunning and powerful Emperor himself. And even the far-reaching Empire is not immune to the effects of the deadly xenovirus and its newest evolutions....

✅ The Becomings: Convergence Beyond Evolution 📖 Book 3 of The Becomings Series A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller About Human Evolution, Consciousness Integration, and the Ultimate Confrontation with Reality 🌀 The convergence has begun. Patterns are awakening. Time is collapsing. 🌀 March 15, 2035. It’s not just a date. It’s a threshold. Reality across the planet is unraveling—clouds spiral into golden ratios, information collapses into patterns, and entire populations are integrating with forces they cannot comprehend. Dr. Nathaniel Kessler, once exiled as a madman, watches his...

The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.

A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory - human existence that predates the development of written records - while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself.

As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "theory of everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, and purposes that make us (and many of our animal cousins) what we are.

Unlock the hidden potential of your psyche with The Kabbalah of You: Mind, Mysticism, and the Evolution of Self, a groundbreaking introduction to Jewish mysticism and its profound implications for personal growth, mental health, and spiritual development. Drawing from the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, this book presents a unique "map" of the human psyche, offering readers practical tools for self-repair, transformation, and a path to inner harmony. In this guide, Annette Poizner introduces the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life as a framework to understand the essential facets of the Self. Through the...

For the past 25 years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and have developed revolutionary theories with profound implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution and now, in The Web of Life, he offers a brilliant synthesis of these exciting breakthroughs.

The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In Go Wild, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not kept pace.

During the process of writing fourteen novels in various genres, the author pieced together quite a few poems and small works of prose, mostly hidden away in the computer files of anonymity. Some have been used by characters in novels, (Rebecca wrote poetry in ‘Waiting For Kitto’) some poems were expanded into the traits of characters in novels or into their experiences. It seems to me that should a novel stall, returning to poetry frees the mind to progress. This anthology of poems and small prose pieces spans the years and may be of interest to my readers and hopefully to lovers of ...

This book isn't just another read; it's a journey through mind-blowing scientific discoveries and philosophical debates. From religion to reason, it uncovers the truth. Are you experiencing anxiety about the future? Do you often query whether there is a God? Do you often ponder what the meaning of your life actually is? Do you know beyond any doubt, what truly good education and upbringing really are? Do you relate to any of these questions? If yes, then you really need to read this book. By engaging with religious writers and dogmatics of the past and our modern times, Greg Oliver explains...

What if the key to personal transformation isn’t hidden in a temple or a therapist’s office—but in two revolutionary systems of thought that have been waiting patiently for you to notice them? The Spiritual Human is two books in one, combining the practical fire of The Fourth Way: A Beginner’s Guide with the visionary depth of Anthroposophy for Beginners. Together, they form a complete guide to becoming what you were meant to be: conscious, balanced, and whole. This is not light reading for lazy minds. It’s a map for seekers who are serious about waking up. Learn why Gurdjieff ...

Essays on science and theology from a scientific Atheist perspective, exploring particularly evolution versus creationism.

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones... to which this book says: Pure nonsense.

Edward J. Larson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and eminent science historian. This marvelously readable, yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution. From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this audiobook he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself.

In this book Dr. Richheimer describes an optimistic view of reality that he calls the spiritual worldview. This view challenges traditional materialism, which posits that physical matter is the fundamental reality. Instead, it suggests that consciousness is the fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. It requires us to fundamentally rethink both cosmology and physics and it explains the counterintuitive aspects of both quantum theory that says that we actively participate in the shaping of reality, and relativity theory that says that the flow of time is an illusion. It offers a ...