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- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
- Five Billion Years of Global Change
A History of the Land
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures formed to fit the different environments in which early societies lived and worked.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be forced into global war.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
- A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
- A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
- Out of Africa but not very different
Despite our expectation that human diversity should be reflected in our genes, a study reveals surprising little variation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Partial exerpt at: http://www.amren.com/news/2009/06/among_many_peop/
- Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?
- Senckenbergische Naturforschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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