Ebook {Epub PDF} Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman

Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World - Kindle edition by Harman, Oren. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World.4/5(50). Oren Harman appears to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot Noah Harrari. In his book he presents fifteen major events in our history, starting with Big Bang and finishing with the emergence of memory and awareness. Like Harari, Harman is a talented scientist, a 4/5(52). "A brilliant lyrical evocation of the history of evolution from the Big Bang to the present day, told in terms of fifteen creation myths. We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a loving embrace. We now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics the workings /5(K).

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"In Evolutions, Oren Harman captures the poetic and emotional depths of processes uncovered by modern science such as the big bang, sex and death, multicellularity, consciousness, language. More bizarre, more incredible than the ancient myths, the myths of science told by Harman are based on exacting and arduous research yet go to the roots of human perceptions and emotions making explicit the sense of beauty and awe that drives scientific activity. The Polymath Who Wrote the History of Science in Poetry. In ‘Evolutions: Fifteen Myths that Explain Our World,’ Oren Harman offers up an enlightening, concise chronicle of the universe. David B. Green. Jun. 15, This book is exactly what it states on the cover - 15 myths that explain our world - but it is not a comparative mythology text or a book that refutes misconceptions of evolution. In this book, Oren Harman takes some of the current scientific knowledge (about the formation of the universe, Earth, and evolution of various organisms) and formulates it into 15 mythological "stories", usually from some.