- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; illustrated edition edition (2 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091885744
- ISBN-13: 978-0091885748
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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217,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #76 in Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Education > Higher Education > Human > Evolution > Human
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Desmond Morris
‘An exciting and important book. Bromhall is a major new voice, with a valuable contribution to the understanding of human evolution.’
Herbert Prins, author of Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo: Social Inequality and Decision Making (Chapman & Hall, London)
'This book provides a candid and unadulterated insight into our body and mind.'
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bromhall has seen something real that science has missed,
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This review is from: The Eternal Child: How Evolution Has Made Children of Us All (Paperback)
So many things became clear for me after grasping the essence of Clive Bromhall's big insight that I cannot look at the world in the way I did before reading his book. He is undoubtably largly right and has discovered a prime mechanisim by which humanity has evolved – that physical regression, 'infantilising', has moulded us to be the creatures we are today. Not only that, the man can write! It's a fascinating, hilarious, fast paced, fact rich, stimulating book that, as I'm sure time will show, will sit at the centre of evolutionary studies in years to come... when the old guard die off!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a strange species we are..........,
By Andy Collings (Winchester, Hants. United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Eternal Child: Staying Young and the Secret of Human Success (Hardcover)
I thought the book might be a bit dry but I started reading it and could not put it down. The content about how we are all super babies and developed the way we have including female and infantile social structures, changed the way we cooperate in large groups and become 'daydreamers' and all that entailed was quite fascinating. The grouping of humans into four categories and the explanation of homosexual and lesbian behaviour is a real thought provoker towards the end of the book.A great read. The ideas will stay with me a long time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Provocative but unconvincing,
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This review is from: The Eternal Child: Staying Young and the Secret of Human Success (Hardcover)
I was greatly disappointed by this book. It's not a scientific, scholary or in any sense academic work. The author rarely cites the source for any of the studies which supposedly support his ideas. Certainly not in a way that would enable anyone to further investigate them. The book seems to consist of gross generalisations and statistics that are plucked out of thin air. To some extent I started of accepting that it was a certain type of book, lightweight and not to be taken too seriously, but after a while, even accepting this, you eventually get tired of reading 'facts' like 9% of men in big cities are gay, but only between 3 to 4% in the suburbs and only 1% in the countryside, 1% of women are lesbians, 30% of peadophiles are attracted to their own sex, 30% of lesbians don't want children, gay men are x times more likely to have a first degree than straight men, y times more likely to have a Masters and x times more likely to hold a PhD. I just found myself wanting to scream "How can you know that?" all the time.
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