Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology, Psychological Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, Evolution

Promethean Fire

Name: Promethean Fire
Author: Whitney Powell
ISBN: 9780674714458

by Whitney Powell

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Overview

In this highly readable new book, the authors take us down the twisting corridors through which our species traveled in the two-million-year odyssey from Homo habilis to modern man. They ask why, out of the millions of species that have emerged and gone extinct, human beings alone took the last, abrupt journey to high intelligence and advanced culture.

About the Author, Whitney Powell

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.