TY - BOOK ID - 85498150 TI - A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system PY - 2020 SN - 1108784526 1108804187 1108788599 1108478190 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Nature KW - Technological innovations KW - Breakthroughs, Technological KW - Innovations, Industrial KW - Innovations, Technological KW - Technical innovations KW - Technological breakthroughs KW - Technological change KW - Creative ability in technology KW - Inventions KW - Domestication of technology KW - Innovation relay centers KW - Research, Industrial KW - Technology transfer KW - Environmental history KW - History. KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85498150 AB - Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today. ER -