Beyond Biology -- a new exploration of human evolution and its potential impact on the future of the earth.It's been over 160 years since Darwin published his masterpiece on evolution, enabling us to understand how all the different life forms, including us, could have emerged through an entirely natural process. Since then, fossil discoveries and advances in DNA technology have established a clear connection between humans and a particular family of great apes.We know that we evolved, but we don't know how we evolved. How could humans have gone through the same kind of evolutionary process as every other animal and yet have come out so different? In Beyond Biology, author Matthew Hallinan argues that we are an intelligent life-form that has not yet figured out what it is and how it fits into the development of the natural world -- the product of a process that has been blind to its impact on the workings of our planet. As a result, humanity is at war with the natural world.We need a new narrative -- one that can help us to change the way we think about both nature and ourselves.Beyond Biology presents an original hypothesis about human evolution; one that the author hopes can better equip us to meet the difficult challenges we face.
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