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What makes the human mind so unique And how did we get this way
This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we areand will change how you think about our future
Look around Clearly we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet But why Where are the Bronze Age beavers The Iron Age iguanas In Stories Dice and Rocks That Think Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in
Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale and predictand eventually masterthe future
Thoughtful and witty this mustlisten book unravels our history as an intelligent species in three acts A fresh new look at the history and destiny of humanity listeners will come away from Stories Dice and Rocks That Think with a new understanding of what they arenot just another animal but a creature with a mastery of time itself
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