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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

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ISBN:  9781788547581
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Descriere

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt.

We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.

Science is an astounding achievement, but are we really any wiser than the ancients? Has science revealed the secrets of fate and immortality? Has it provided protection from jealousy or love? There are those who believe that science has replaced faith, but must it also be a death knell for mythology?

Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific thinking on the birth of the universe and the solar system, the journey from a single cell all the way to our human minds. Reawakening our sense of wonder and terror at the world around us and within us, Oren Harman uses modern science to create new and original mythologies. Here are the Earth and the Moon presenting a cosmological view of motherhood, a panicking Mitochondrion introducing sex and death to the world, the loneliness of consciousness emerging from the memory of an octopus, and the birth of language in evolution summoning humankind's struggle with truth.

Science may not solve our existential puzzles, but like the age-old legends, its magical discoveries can help us continue the never-ending search.


'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt.

'A dazzling voyage of the imagination, the story of our origins from the Big Bang to planets to life, told in the language and style of an epic poem. Intelligent, provocative, playful, and beautifully written' Alan Lightman.

'More bizarre, more incredible than the ancient myths, the myths of science told by Harman are based on exacting and arduous research. It is a book that will bring the poet to science, and the scientist to poetry' Eva Jablonka, author of Evolution of Four Dimensions.

'Brilliant. It is a wholly original contribution to the way science ought to become part of the way we think about the universe and talk about the meaning of life. A moving and provocative achievement' Leon Botstein, President of Bard College.

'Evolutions is innovative precisely because it eschews speculative fictions in favour of strictly factual tales cast in mythic mode ... Remarkable for its ambitions, as well as its persuasive mediation on the conjoint trajectories of myth and science' Times Literary Supplement.

'Daring and beautifully written, poetic and at times funny, very learned ... You cannot begin to do it justice until you've read it' Paul Ross, TalkRADIO.

Detalii

Editura: Head of Zeus
An apariție: 2019
Nr. pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 20 x 13 cm
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