Table of Contents

Contents: – Dynamic Progressions – Originating Adaptations of Animal Life – We Dominating Mammals – The Primate Pathway – Homo: Wherefrom? – Natural Selection of Homo – Cro-Magnon – Homo sapiens sapiens – Evolutionary Outcomes – Homo sapiens sapiens: A Unique Animal Intelligence – Civilization: Symbolic Dynamics – Civilizational Dynamics: Exemplars – Symbolic Thought: The Universal, the Plural – Cro-Magnon’s Progeny: The Modern Mind – Dream of a Universal Humanity – Natural Selection of Humanity – Reality Suppressed – Our Twenty-First Century and Beyond – Conditions of International Survival – Utopia Interdict – The United States in Transition – Catastrophe, Renewal, and Law – Destiny.

About the Author

Seymour W. Itzkoff majored in music and social sciences in his undergraduate studies at the University of Hartford. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in the philosophy of science and philosophy of education from Columbia University. For a number of years he was a professional cellist. He is the author of twenty-five books in various disciplines. He taught primarily at Smith College, from which he is emeritus after thirty-four years of teaching.

Reviews

«This would be a terrific first book for a high school student or early undergraduate. It is well written and engaging, and the author cares and shows this. This volume is a great way to get young minds kick-started.»
(Michael Ruse, The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 93, Number 1/2018)