Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4313212 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 261 pages

Customer Reviews

A most original thesis, Darwin included, on human evolution.
See Review in Parabola, Spring l999 Nature

" This is a new model on the relationship between biology and myth as the original invariants that interact as human evolution and human history. The book is divided into four main chapters. The first outlines the biocultural paradigm. The second deals with language systems, making a distinction betwen mythopoetic languages (those of the right hemisphere of the brain's neocortex) and ideographic language (the language of the "intepreter module" of the left hemisphere and its penchant for the habitual repetition of language technologies based on alphabetic writing). It is this technology that has acted as "biocultural imperialism" on other ways of knowledge, and it is this technology that accounts, according to the author, for the mind/mind split. It is this language that accounts for matriarchy becoming patriarchy, open social systems becoming hierarchically ordered, mysticism becoming magic... human diversity becoming less tenable, and we ending up loosing our evolutionary advantage as we become more homogenetic." An extraordinary book to be read by everyone interested in his/her own origins, culturally and individually. Dr. A.T.N Gainesville, Florida