COSMOSAPIENS

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A critical overview of scientific orthodoxy in an attempt to answer the fundamental questions what are we? and why are we here? (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>).</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we as humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious book merges scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines and evaluates without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter consciousness and mankind. The result a pearl of dialectical reasoning (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Publishers Weekly</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> starred review) provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation dark energy the selfish gene and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest possible prose it differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields to approach a unified theory of everything. In doing so it challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology biology and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma. Its shocking and invigorating analysis (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Daily Telegraph</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> A Best Science Book of 2015) reveals underlying patterns of cooperation complexification and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution. This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Praise for <em>Cosmosapiens</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a truly exceptional piece of work. -Tim Crane Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy The University of Cambridge</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A game-changer. In the tradition of Thomas Kuhn's <em>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</em> this lucidly written penetrating analysis challenges us to rethink many things we take for granted about ourselves our society and our universe. It will become a classic. -Peter Dreier E P Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics Occidental College</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hands is an astute observer of recent trends in scientific ideas bold enough to point out what he sees as sense and nonsense and intelligently explain why. Even in cases where one might disagree the arguments are thought-provoking. -Paul Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science Princeton University</strong></p>