PRIMATE PULSES: From Placentals to Hominins
About this audiobook
From the first placental mammals to the earliest bipedal hominins, evolution entered its most dynamic and familiar chapter. Primate Pulses traces the final five major pulses of life's evolutionary journey, following the emergence of placental mammals, primates, anthropoids, hominoids, and the first hominins.
Rather than presenting evolution as a gradual continuum, the author applies a unique logarithmic framework that asks two fundamental questions: When did major grade-level changes occur, and what functional transformations define them? Drawing on the latest fossil discoveries, comparative anatomy, molecular evidence, and evolutionary biology, the book charts the successive emergence of new locomotor, neural, and social grades across more than a hundred million years.
From tiny arboreal mammals navigating the earliest flowering forests to vulnerable bipedal hominins standing at the threshold of humanity, Primate Pulses offers a fresh perspective on one of science's greatest stories. By charting the timing and character of life's major transitions, the book invites readers to reconsider the evolutionary record through the lens of logarithmic time.
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About the author
With degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, the author has long been dedicated to interdisciplinary and synthetic scholarship. His published work spans evolutionary theory, archaeology, cosmology, history, and symbolic anthropology, seeking broad patterns that connect the sciences and the humanities. He previously published in World Futures the article "The Fragility of Evolution," which re-envisioned evolution around the concept of fragility and the protection of vulnerable periods of change. His subsequent research has expanded this inquiry through the development of a logarithmic framework for evolutionary time, exploring the possibility that major transitions in the history of life unfold in a regular, accelerating pattern.
