A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution

by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Book Overview

We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live--our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values--seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744420
• ISBN13: 9780198744429
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"