November 2016
Beginner
242 pages
7h 54m
English
As a race, human beings were always caught between the double-edge of survival and prosperity. We were assaulted by the winds of Winter and attacked by natural predators and, as largely physically inferior beings, we had to fight with the one weapon we have: our minds. We designed better tools to survive and developed means to perpetrate our knowledge down the generations. The rise of the scientific method allowed us to focus on facts instead of assumptions, and brought our knowledge out of the shadow of belief. However, as human beings, it is inevitable that we are molded by our environment and transformed by circumstances. Our very existence is the result of genetic accident, ensuring that each one ...