PART TWO - The Emergence of Scientific Ideas and Innovations
We Stand On Their Shoulders
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Fundamentals of Evolution - disabled
Complexity, Chaos and Self-organization - disabled
The Selfish Gene and Genetic Evolution - disabled
Primates and Homo Sapiens - disabled
Consciousness and Innovation - disabled
Selfish Thoughts, Memes and Memetic Evolution - disabled
Memetic Evolution and Biological Evolution - disabled
Early Human Innovations - disabled
From Nomads to Farmers to Explorers - disabled
The Three Ages of Science - disabled
The Age of Classical Scholarship - disabled
The Middle Ages - disabled
The Age of Reason - disabled
Pre-industrial Technologies and Innovations - disabled
After completing Part Two, you should have a fundamental understanding of life processes as they have evolved on Earth and of the emergence of the human species, of the concept of human consciousness and of human innovation as a process.
