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The Eternal Child: Staying Young and the Secret of Human Success [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Clive Bromhall (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press; illustrated edition edition (2 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091885744
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091885748
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 431,229 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Bromhall has seen something real that science has missed, 29 Jul 2004
By I. Tyrrell (Hailsham, East Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a strange species we are.........., 23 Jan 2003
By Andy Collings (Winchester, Hants. United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly original synthesis, 27 April 2003
By W L ALLSOPP (Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I've just finished Bromhall's book and am very impressed. Bromhall is a documentary producer rather than an academic and the book is more speculation than academic rigour. The supporting evidence for his theories is mostly of the semi anacdotal kind or drawn from a wide scattering of sources. This makes the book an easy read and its actually quite short (type is widely spaced).

However what makes the book special is that Bromhall sketches a myriad of ways in which the neotenous nature of humans provides a possible explanation for a wide range of mysteries such as why the brain became so large, why homosexuality is so prevalent in human societies, why females have permanently enlarged breasts etc. Bromhall provides quite plausible possible theories for these features which have attracted a wide range of not very satisfactory explanations over the years.

Bromhall, turns many of our prejudices for example that we are a particularly aggressive species on their head and has therefore managed to change the way I look at the world in a way that very few books are able to do.

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