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Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Desmond, Adrian; Moore, James
Book
2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures for...
A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be force...
A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fi...
A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
The World Without Us
Weisman, Alan
Book
2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

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Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Downey, Greg
2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patt...