The Story of Our Lives
Homo Sapiens' Secrets of Success
- 2022 INDIES Winner
- Silver, Science & Technology (Adult Nonfiction)
What is it that enables human to share some 99 percent of DNA as well as some basic behaviors with other organisms, yet at the same time be so different and powerful? Ben David addresses the above question using a new paradigm: The Gordian knot between five human traits—imagination, creative making, complex communication, change and intergenerational transfer—evolutionary developed and co-amplified as the ultra-complex system called Homo sapiens.