From Affluence to Anxiety: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-5.php

From Separation to Boredom: http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter1-4.php

Chapter II: The Origins of Separation

Contents:

• The Biological Origins of Self http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-1.php Cooperation, and not competition, is the primary basis of life and the primary engine of evolution.

  Fire and Stone http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-2.php 26Jan2014Sunday-0924

  Labeling the World http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-3.php 26Jan2014Sunday-1044

  Mathematics and Measure http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter2-4.php 28Jan2014Sunday-0828

 

• Fire and Stone
• Labeling the World
• Mathematics and Measure
• Keeping Time
• Images of Images
• The Marvelous Piraha
• Cultivation and Culture
• The Machine
• Religion and Ritual
• The Playful Universe