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"Byron Reese gets to the heart of what makes humans different from all others." —Midwest Book Review
What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way?
This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are—and will change how you think about our future.
Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? In Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think, Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in.
Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.
Thoughtful, witty, and compulsively readable, Reese unravels our history as an intelligent species in three acts:
The price of "Stories, Dice, And Rocks That Think (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! Cincinnati (Cheviot) is USD $27.95.
The publisher of "Stories, Dice, And Rocks That Think (Hardcover Book)" is Benbella Books.
The genres of "Stories, Dice, And Rocks That Think (Hardcover Book)" are History - Social History, Science - History, and Technology & Engineering - History.
"Stories, Dice, And Rocks That Think (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Stories, Dice, And Rocks That Think (Hardcover Book)" is Byron Reese.