Cosmosapiens

Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

By: John Hands

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Cosmosapiens is a big-picture look at how human life emerged and evolved in the universe, incorporating the ideas of world-renowned experts from a wide range of intellectual disciplines.

Who are we, and how did we get here? These are two of the most fundamental and far-reaching questions facing scientists and cosmologists alike and have rested at the center of human intellectual endeavor since its beginning. They are questions that stretch across numerous disciplines. Philosophy, theology, evolutionary biology, and mathematics are just some of the fields looking to explain the emergence of human life. But with so many groups seeking answers using so many different methods, it can be nearly impossible to tell what sort of progress has been made without stepping back and looking at the whole interdisciplinary picture.

In Cosmosapiens, John Hands presents listeners with exactly such a synthesis, 10 years in the making and incorporating the ideas of world-renowned experts from wide array of fields. The book sifts the speculative from the firmly established, examining claims of all sorts, challenging the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma. His striking analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexification, and convergence that begin to tell the story of human emergence and consciousness. In the end, it will transform our understanding of what we are and how we evolved from the origin of the universe.

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a rare broad survey, give it a go!

While some will beg to differ on various points throughout the text, this book overall represents a rare broad survey of science as it applies to the question : where did we come from?

this is a serious attempt to ask a lot of very good basic questions about science in the world, and at the very least it is a wonderful book for inspiring thought and your own questions.

I hope that a future edition contains a bit more focus on the hypothico deductive process and even the statistics used with that to evaluate the legitimacy of results.

VERY THOROUGH

I enjoyed this book. The author introduced several viable theories to otherwise challenge the orthodox beliefs. As well, the material was researched, presented with open mindedness, and offered reasonable thought.

One of my all time favorites!!

I enjoyed this great book about connecting knowledge. Great book and enjoyable listen. Highly recommended!! #Inspiring #SelfDiscovery #Provocative #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Much too long

John Hands has much to cover - too much - and he does not handle it well. I got some new knowledge from this book but to get there I had to be vitally interested in the topic and disciplined enough to plow through many hours of Hands reviewing the current state of scientific understanding of central issues in cosmology, evolution, and related science fields. Hands takes pains to undermine current orthodoxy on matters such as the Big Bang theory, string theory, and neo-Darwinism, and is perhaps a little too smug about this.
The amount of verbiage discussing current theories makes me worry that as our scientific understanding learns and evolves, the book will become dated.
In short there is useful stuff in here even for the scientifically literate but it might be written at too high a level for the lay person and too exhaustive to reward 31 hours of listening for someone with a science background.

<br /><br />Overview of what we know, and what we don't know

excellent summary of what science has discovered so far, for lay people and scholars alike.