Cosmosapiens

Fields of scientific expertise are developing at breakneck speed, but what are they really telling us about how the universe began and how humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? The extraordinarily ambitious expedition that John Hands has undertaken aims to compile all this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or prejudice all the theories and evidence on the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness and humanity. This amazing book offers the most comprehensive account yet published of such current concepts as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene, and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest prose possible, he differentiates the solidly established from the speculative and examines the claims of fields such as "string theory" for a unified theory of everything. In this way he challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma. His startling analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexity, and convergence that lead to the emergence of an introspective consciousness, unique to humans, that allows us to determine our future evolution. This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thought.