Paperback. For ages the events of human experience were explained by recourse to supernatural agents and forces. Given the rudimentary intellectual tools then available to the human race, no better explanations were possible. Over the ensuing centuries, the ideas and methods of empirical science came into being and were applied to all aspects of human experience. Conceptions of life, the world, the universe, and even of God were modified, with naturalistic interpretations challenging and supplanting supernaturalistic ones. Today the viewpoint of science is gaining ever-greater acceptance. In his eloquent new book, The Evolution of the Human Mind, Robert Carneiro traces the history of this developmentfrom the Paleolithic to the presentvividly describing the major events that have marked this great transition in human thought. In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical sciencefrom the Paleolithic to the presentvividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Evolution of the Human Mind (Paperback)
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications Inc, Clinton Corners
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0979773121
ISBN 13: 9780979773129
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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This is the first single book to document the evolution in human thinking from a belief in supernaturalism to a belief in naturalism. The author shows how the ideas that people have held through the centuries about the world have developed from human experience - particularly during the last four hundred years - to the point today where, for the first time in human history, we see scientists in whom a belief in naturalism is complete and all-encompassing. As a philosopher of science, the author is concerned not so much with the ideas of particular individuals as he is with a system of ideas; as a cultural anthropologist, he is primarily interested in culture as the product of human thought.

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Robert L. Carneiro has been curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History for more than fifty years. His ethnographic fieldwork has been with Amazonian tribes. His other scientific research has focused on social evolution, especially on the origin of the state.

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