TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Charles
TI  - Being a human: adventures in forty thousand years of consciousness 
SN  - 9781250783714
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Human behavior
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - History
KW  - Evolutionary psychology
KW  - Human evolution
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-379); Upper Palaeolithic -- Neolithic -- Enlightenment
N2  - "A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--; How did humans come to be who we are?  Foster explores three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness in order to understand perhaps the strangest animal of all: the human being. Readers will experience the Upper Paleolithic era as a Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer, living in makeshift shelters without amenities in the rural woods of England. For the Neolithic period, when humans stayed in one place and domesticated plants and animals, they learn about a Neolithic settlement. To explore the Enlightenment, Foster finds his world and himself bizarre and disembodied, and he rues the atrophy of our senses, the cause for much of what ails us. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -