From Chimps to Humans? & Is Our Civilization Dying

ISBN-13: 9781479127139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

Edward Furlong

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From Chimps to Humans? was written when Edward Furlong (EF) found that Alfred Wallace, a 19th century specimen collector for museums and zoos had worked out in a few hours of inspiration how the evolution of species occurred and sent his brilliant paper to wealthy Charles Darwin who had written his influential scholarly friends that his next book contained many facts but nothing new. Then he received the Wallace paper and included the theory in an early part of his book without acknowledgement. It is always referred to now as Darwinism. EF also noticed that every find of fossil humanoids was apparently different from all others. Eventually they were, it seemed for convenience, grouped together and given a name for each group roughly depending on calculated distance into the past. Scholars favour Latin names, it seems to lend more prestige to their work. It has taken EF many years to formulate his ideas on societies and civilizations. Reading Gibbon and Toynbee confirmed his differences from both. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Falklands war provided EF with working examples which supported his theory. While remembering that the timeline has telescoped in the Space Age, it is recommended that US politicians should read at least chapters 3 & 4 of this work not for any attempt to publicize it, but because it gives a succinct summary of the rise decay and fall of a society.