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Content:
Prologue
Chapter I Life and Time: The Beginning
Chapter II Rise of the Mammals
Chapter III Uprights of Prehistoric Times
Chapter IV The Extended Family Tree
Chapter V Early Humans
Chapter VI Out of Africa
Chapter VII Cognitive Revolution
Chapter VIII The Culmination of Stone Age
Chapter XI Agricultural Revolution
Chapter X Mythology in Ancient Civilization
Chapter XI In God(s) We Trust
Chapter XII Catalysts for Globalization
Chapter XIII Arts, Science and Religion
Chapter XIV Dynamics of Social Structure
Chapter XV Colonialism, Capitalism and Science.
Chapter XVI Discovery of the Laws of Nature
Chapter XVII Arrival of the 21st Century
Chapter XVIII Future Science
Chapter XIX Reproduction of sapiens
Index
A selection comprising random single sentence from each chapter to have a glimpse that is not necessarily intended to host the central theme of that respective chapter.
Prologue. 'Life has occurred on earth by virtue of chemistry powered by electromagnetic waves. Because electromagnetic wave can only function in the small scale of gravity, life has to occur in the microscopic state. We are a collection of trillions of highly specialized cells; we are huge. However, for the same reason, we are significantly smaller than the planets and the stars.'
Chapter I. 'Tiktaalik had arrived on land twelve million years before the appearance of the fossil records of the earliest Tetrapod.'
Chapter II. ''Evolution is not an independent event for any species. The co-evolution of other species create profound impact.
Chapter III. 'Primates do not have gluteus muscles anywhere near our size. What they use is the well-developed hamstring muscle for their hind leg retraction during their locomotion.'
Chapter IV. 'While European Homo heidelbergensis gave rise to Homo neanderthalensis, the Asian Homo heidelbergensis gave rise to Homo denisovans.'
Chapter V. 'The diversity in retention of archaic features by the archaic humans had been redundant, which is inconsistent with the notion of a single source of human evolution.'
Chapter VI. 'On analyzing that DNA, to everyone’s surprise, it was found that the Mungo man was not a descendant of Mitochondrial Eve.'
Chapter VII,'The power of imagination served the massive prospect, as the newfound language became the tool to share and validate collective imagination, narrating ideas of characters and entities that did not exist.'
Chapter VIII. 'A very different township came into existence in Catal Hoyuk (pronounced, Chatal Hoyook) in Turkey, a thousand years after the abandonment of Gobekli Tepe. Many scholars think that is the oldest city built in Stone Age. '
Chapter IX. 'Botanical genetic researchers studying the wheat genes have identified that the earliest domestication began twelve thousand years ago with one variant of wheat on the sides of Karacadag hill, which is located in the hill country of southeastern Turkey.'
Chapter X. 'A collection of Sumerian texts has been found in Ashurbanipal’s library at Nineveh, that referred to Sumerian temperament.'
Chapter XI. 'Animism is a fairly modern word. Anthropologist Edward Taylor had been first to use the word ‘animism’ in context of the animistic belief system in his book ‘Primitive Culture’ published in 1871.
Chapter XII. 'During the expansion and subsequent waning of Empires like this, the fragmented population in much of Central Asia became standardized.'
Chapter XIII. 'During the evacuation of Takhashila, Chanakya had left the city with his disciples.'
Chapter XIV. 'King Leopold, the monarch of Belgium, acting behind the scene, summed up the sentiment of the meeting. He said, “I am determined to get my share of this magnificent African cake.” '
Chapter XV. 'William Hawkins was a sullen old sailor, whose aptitude leaned more towards a pirate than an explorer, however, he had other qualities. He was a smooth talker, womanizer, and an inveterate alcoholic.'
Chapter XVI. 'Many of his mathematical theorems now churn the mathematical power behind disciplines in Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, and Gas Physics.'
Chapter XVII. 'Modern research, however, reveals happiness does not depend on objective conditions, such as health, wealth or society; rather it depends on the correlation between expectation and prevailing conditions.'
Chapter XVIII. 'The natural progression of anything follows exponential trait along the arrow of time.'
Chapter XIX. 'At its generic level, that is before the emergence of species-specific traits, the development the human embryo grows in line with the tradition of the embryonic growth of vertebrates.'
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This book bears the fruition of my four years of research to answer a question that had occurred to me during my childhood: ‘where did I come from?’ To address the question, the book begins with the beginning of time, recalling Carl Sagan, who had famously said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe.” Evolution of life had brought life to the land; asteroid encounter served advantage to the mammals; eventually appeared the uprights. They underwent diversification; one lineage led to the big-brained Homo sapiens in Africa. However, they had nothing to show for their big brain for 135,000 years, while they discovered themselves placed near the bottom third of the food chain. After emerging from Africa, they picked up genes from other human species. Eventually, the configuration of their brain brought Cognitive Revolution characterized by the development of fictive languages. They usurped top spot in the food chain by supplementing their physical shortcomings with spear points after they had set foot in Australia. Preaching at Gobekli Tepe promoted self-esteem; liberated humans from their inferiority complex. Agricultural Revolution spread. Stone Age flourished in the Levant, humans acquired germs after undertaking animal husbandry. Tribal Gods gained status as city-states emerged. Europeans conquered the globe. Germs decimated the natives. Science merged with the empire. Discovery of the New World prompted Europeans to acknowledge their ignorance. Slavery created a dark episode in the New World. Colonies set up various laws to humiliate and subjugate the slaves. Europeans went to Africa to extract raw materials for their industries. Science progressed building on prior discoveries. Enormous human population sent wildlife to the periphery, while some unleashed various draconian brutalities on the domesticated animals. Science progresses relentlessly. Moreover, a glimpse of how we arrive into this world.
