Evolution at the Speed of Thought : A New Chapter in the History of Evolution

ISBN-13: 9783659947681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 84 str.

Timothy McGettigan

Opis

This book proposes a solution to the agency-determinism debate by defining humans as super-adaptable agents. Humans super-adapt by deploying cognitive solutions to evolutionary survival challenges. Homo sapiens has, thus, transformed the evolutionary process into an intellectual exercise that proceeds at the speed of thought. Cognitive super-adaptation enables humans to significantly accelerate the adaptation process, while it also transforms adaptation from a random to a highly specific problem solving process.

O autorze

Timothy McGettigan, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University - Pueblo. At present, Prof Tim is helping to establish an Institute of Cannabis Research at CSU-Pueblo. Prof Tim has research interests in the areas of social inequality, social change, and science, technology & society (STS).