A Brief History of the Last 2½ Million Years

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How does our history explain what we believe?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spanning 2.5 million years of human history </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Brief History of the Last 2 ½ Million Years</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a bold sweeping exploration of the three milestones that shape our evolution. The most important of which is religious belief.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anthony O'Keeffe unpacks the causal relationship between the arrival our of species the birth of ritual and the creation of our gods tracing a lineage from primitive tool use and early cave art to organized religion and the philosophical questions that continue to define us today.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book draws together the remarkable discoveries we've recently made into our ancient past to delve into why we believe and what we believe in. And to explore how those beliefs then shaped the subsequent development of law morality and the civilizations that followed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drawing on biological anthropology philosophy archaeology and evolutionary science O'Keeffe builds a compelling case for viewing religious belief as the transformative milestone in human evolution.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For readers of philosophy human history and religion alike this is a provocative and illuminating read that challenges assumptions and invites renewed reflection on what it means to be human.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Get a new perspective on our oldest questions.</strong></p>