A History of Humanity The Evolution of the Human System Manning Paperback

A History of Humanity The Evolution of the Human System Manning Paperback

A History of Humanity\n\nThe Evolution of the Human System\n\nAnalyzes both the social and biological evolution of humans, from the spoken language to today's institutions.\n\nPatrick Manning (Author)\n\n9781108747097, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 27 February 2020\n\n374 pages\n22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg\n\n'This study is history on a grand scale \u2026' Brian Fagan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History\n\nHumanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social dive]

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