The Staircase of Life

The Story of the Origin and Evolution of Life and Humankind

Gerard Alexander Willighagen • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  Even though we are all different in our own ways, we all have an underlying thread in common: our evolution, our history.
  
  However, only roughly 0.0001 % of the Earth’s whole history has been occupied by human beings with behaviorally contemporary traits. We are, in fact, right at the start of everything. Yet, in order to survive even for such a short period of time, a seemingly unending line of fortunate events was necessary.
  
  But what were these fortunate events? How did Homo sapiens get here after many billion years and virtually infinite evolutionary crossroads? How did humankind ultimately conquer the world? And how did life emerge in the first place?
  
  In this epic and compelling story, Gerard Alexander Willighagen strives to answer these and many more intriguing questions by taking you through space and time to explore the origins of life, the evolution and rise of Homo sapiens, the dawn and development of civilization, and the emergence and formation of the modern world we know today. In the process of meandering through this multi-billion-year story, we’ll come to appreciate the incredible good fortune that all living organisms, including our own highly evolved yet essentially Stone Age-wired species, have of just simply existing.
  
  So, let’s take a huge step back in time—right at the initial steps of life—to ponder how exceptional our story truly is. However, as a short sneak peek in advance: our story is indeed exceptional, notable, and utterly captivating.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 127mm x 203mm
  Aantal pagina's : 418
  Uitgeverij : NOBIS
  ISBN : 9789083335407
  Datum publicatie : 04-2023
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  CONTENTS I
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III
  INTRODUCTION V
  
  PART I THE BIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
  1. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 1
  2. EVOLUTION THEORY 15
  3. THE ERUPTION OF LIFE 54
  
  PART II THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION
  4. THE ADVENT OF SAPIENS 81
  5. HUMAN INSTINCT 104
  6. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE 128
  7. OUR LAST ANCESTORS 148
  
  PART III THE IMPERIAL REVOLUTION
  8. THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION 179
  9. THE UNIFICATION OF HUMANKIND 210
  10. IMPERIAL HISTORY 241
  
  PART IV THE MODERN REVOLUTION
  11. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 295
  12. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 329
  
  PART V AFTERWORD
  13. CONCLUSION 372
  14. SOURCES 377
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