The Emergence and Nature of Human History, Volume One

A Preview of My Series on Human History, The First Volume of Which Was Published in 2012. You may purchase it in paperback here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/joseph-miller/the-emergence-and-nature-of-human-history-volume-one/paperback/product-20585871.html;jsessionid=BFF89C9FEA5DC7FAA0349A10E5926C54

Saturday, March 16, 2013

It is not enough to say that human action is historical, and that history is an unfolding of unique events. Nothing fundamental se...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Dedication

To Hailey and Aubrey, Whom I Love More Than I Could Possibly Express, from Grandpa

Prologue

He was entering what was perhaps the final stretch of a life he had never quite mastered or understood. He had been luckier than most oth...

Introduction, Part One

I. This book is my attempt to explain, in as straightforward and comprehensive a way as I can, my ideas about how humans acquired the ab...

Introduction, Part Two

IV. When you teach history for enough years, it begins to dawn on you that human life has developed in ways that seem to defy any logical a...

Introduction, Part Three

VII. So what is the root cause of our extraordinary abilities, our conflicts, our achievements, our confusion, and our inability to unders...

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