Our Hominid Predecessors
Humans are a problem-solving animal. We evolve both physically and mentally in response to challenges, which enables us to move beyond our inheritance — to consciously evolve. Throughout our history, innovations and solutions have been linked to religious ideas.
“As the problems and challenges facing humankind have changed, so have their religious and ideological solutions. We live among the wreckage of once-potent solutions. If we neglect them, they may become barriers to thought and action. If we understand them, they are a treasure house for all of us to share.”
The Unseen World: The Rise of Gods and Spirits
The Institute for Cultural Research
In the series
- Genetics and Evolution
- We Were Not Alone Until Recently
- Tracking Human Movement Across the Globe
- Biological Traits and the Fiction of Race
- She Has Her Mother's Laugh
- Neanderthal Man – In Search of Lost Genomes
- Bonobos and Chimpanzees
- Human Traits in Our Nearest Relatives
- Out of Africa
- Human Universals: Traits All Humans Share
- 211 Universal Human Traits
- The Evolution of Human Morality: The Age of Empathy and The Bonobo and the Atheist
- The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
- Before the Dawn: New details of human evolution revealed