A History of Humanity
The Evolution of the Human System
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 27 February 2020
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108747097 |
| ISBN10: | 1108747094 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 374 pages |
| Size: | 228x151x20 mm |
| Weight: | 540 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 13 maps |
| 231 |
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Short description:
Analyzes both the social and biological evolution of humans, from the spoken language to today's institutions.
Long description:
Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.
'A great world historian surveys the whole of human history, offering new insights and perspectives into 'the human system'. This is world history on a canvas broad enough to help us think seriously about how we got to dominate planet earth ... and where it is all going.' David Christian, author of Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
'A great world historian surveys the whole of human history, offering new insights and perspectives into 'the human system'. This is world history on a canvas broad enough to help us think seriously about how we got to dominate planet earth ... and where it is all going.' David Christian, author of Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Table of Contents:
List of maps; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. The human system; Part II. Pleistocene Evolution: 2. Biological and cultural evolution; 3. Speech and social evolution; 4. Systemic expansion; 5. Production and confederation; Part III. Holocene Evolution: 6. Society: network vs hierarchy; 7. Collisions and contraction; 8. From global networks to capitalism; Part IV. Anthropocene Evolution: 9. Systemic threats; 10. Hope for adaptations; Appendix. Frameworks for analysis; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
