Evolution and I / by Johan Frostegård.

"This book is about evolution, and what each of us, our self and our consciousness, really are. It highlights how evolution influences the human self and what we think of as our individual personalities, our souls. The theory of evolution, first conceived by Charles Darwin, has been described as the...

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Main Author: Frostegård, Johan, 1959- (Author)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Swedish
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology) > Popular works.
Evolution (Biology)
Popular works.
Genre:
Popular works.
Physical Description:viii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Just another animal?
  • The theory of evolution as such : Darwin's algorithms
  • Memes : evolution and natural selection without genes
  • The Lambent flame of reason
  • Our history : a family bush with many broken twigs
  • The ape in all of us : but which one?
  • Homo
  • A golden age?
  • Agriculture : imperfect adaptations to new circumstances
  • The self and the 'rigged' world
  • Does the world exist? : what is science?
  • She, he, I
  • The human body and its senses
  • The brain and I
  • The human body and the self
  • The great imitator
  • Syphilis, the self and history
  • Immunology, evolution and the self
  • Evolution, morals and ethics
  • About enhancing the self
  • A bit more about religion
  • Artificial intelligence, robots
  • Final words.