{"product_id":"foot-in-the-river-why-our-lives-change-and-the-limits-of-evolution-9780198806806","title":"Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution","description":"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, baffling, sometimes terrifying. Why is this? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Foot in the River\u003c\/em\u003e, best-selling historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers to these very big questions about the human species and its history--and speculates on what these answers might mean for our future. Combining insights from a huge range of disciplines, including history, biology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, sociology, ethology, zoology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, the cognitive sciences, and even business studies, he argues that culture is exempt from evolution. Ultimately, no environmental conditions, no genetic legacy, no predictable patterns, no scientific laws determine our behaviour. We can consequently make and remake our world in the freedom of unconstrained imaginations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA revolutionary book which challenges scientistic assumptions about culture and how and why cultural change happens, \u003cem\u003eA Foot in the River\u003c\/em\u003e comes to conclusions which readers may well find by turns both daunting and also potentially hugely liberating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felipe Fernandez-Armesto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198806806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFelipe Fernandez-Armesto\u003c\/strong\u003e is the William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including \u003cem\u003eCivilizations\u003c\/em\u003e (Macmillan, 2000), \u003cem\u003eMillennium\u003c\/em\u003e (Bantam, 1995), \u003cem\u003e1492: The Year Our World Began\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2010), and \u003cem\u003ePathfinders: A Global History of Exploration\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44456458158195,"sku":"9780198806806","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5d792d65-6361-4a67-be0f-349b1f146a81.jpg?v=1773750325","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/foot-in-the-river-why-our-lives-change-and-the-limits-of-evolution-9780198806806","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}