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The Human Reality: A Reinterpretation of Our Origins and Evolution
 
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The Human Reality: A Reinterpretation of Our Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)

by Peter Prew (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 728 pages
  • Publisher: Book Guild Ltd (15 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184624014X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846240140
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 333,799 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating take on our origins and our right to be here at all, 4 Mar 2007
By P. C. Greenland (UK) - See all my reviews
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It is easy to think that something has gone a little wrong in the evolution of mankind, but harder to work out exactly where we made that fatal wrong turn. This book provides an answer that is intriguing and has the ring of truth about it. It makes the claim that the move away from hunter-gathering and the move towards agriculture was a personal and ecological disaster. The societies that grew up around agriculture lost touch with their old way of life, and for the first time people became static, building the first hierarchical societies that became hostile to the wild environment as nature became perceived as an alien threat, a place of monsters and dragons and dark forces. The book explores the move from the first small enclaves of people huddled around their domestic animals and cultivated crops, to nations competing with each other for dwindling resources in a desperate battle to survive as convergent evolution drives them to clash dangerously. The components of modern life are put into perspective as the author shows how language, religion, culture, science etc. serve to reinforce our belief in our own 'specialness'. And how our successful, proud societies all ultimately succumb to a state of paranoia, brutality, mental illness, and war. The author shows us the ultimate and inevitable showdown with nature. Global warming could be that line drawn in the sand as nature and we go to war... It is a fascinating read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Shaun Toft, 15 Jun 2008
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More than anything this book has helped me to organise those intuitions and doubts about where we as a species are headed in this modern world into a more coherent whole. Rather than try to explain in a few paragraphs what this book sets out to achieve, i would rather just say to anybody thinking of reading this book that if they have even the slightest curiosity as to why human societies are in so much trouble now, and have been throughout history that this book can help them to understand not only 'why' this is repeatedly happening, but just how long it has been happening for, and if indeed there is any time left to change things ? The ideas in this book will benefit not only those that already have a niggling doubt in their mind about human societies, but those who perhaps as yet have no doubts at all ! Many will find this an uncomfortable read (in parts i certainly did) but the authors commitment to real truth and wisdom, and exposing of the many lies and crimes that our so called 'Great Nations' and religions have commited on the poor, to nature and the indigeounous peoples of this world over thousands of years of so called 'civilisation' together with the way it is skillfully written and diagramatically explained will win many fans and probably make many enemies ! Even so the effort alone is to be congratulated.
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5.0 out of 5 stars explores some of the most fundamental questions of human existence, 18 Jan 2008
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This book is unusual not just in its subject matter but in the time and detail it spends in exploring some of the most fundamental questions of human existence.
Thought-provoking and stimulating, it presents the idea that we have slipped from being Homo sapiens, "hunter-gatherers still true to their evolutionary selves", to Homo degener, "failed degenerates separated from their true selves by their adaptation to agriculture". Prew does not shy away from tackling the big issues that have accompanied us on this journey - religion, the creation of nation states, language and, of course, agriculture.
The book is a thoughtful and considered contribution to the debate over how we got to where we are now, and how we could ensure future human survival.
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