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008			150615s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2015014024
020			_a9781628725223 (hardback)
020			_z9781628725469 (E-book)
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100	1		_aCurrier, Richard L.
245	1	0	_aUnbound : _bhow eight technologies made us human, transformed society, and brought our world to the brink / _cRichard L Currier.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1508
264		1	_aNew York : _bArcade Publishing, _c2015.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Primate Baseline: Tools, Traditions, Motherhood, Warfare, and the Homeland; 2 The Technology of Spears and Digging Sticks: Upright Posture and Bipedal Locomotion; 3 The Technology of Fire: Cooking, Nakedness, and Staying Up Late; 4 The Technologies of Clothing and Shelter: Hats, Huts, Togas, and Tents; 5 The Technology of Symbolic Communication: Music, Art, Language, and Ethnicity; 6 The Technology of Agriculture: Permanent Villages and the Accumulation of Wealth. 7 The Technologies of Interaction: Ships, Writing, the Wheel, and the Birth of Civilization8 The Technology of Precision Machinery: Clocks, Engines, and Industrial Society; 9 The Technology of Digital Information: The World Wide Web of Human Interaction; 10 Our World at the Brink: Is Humanity Drifting Toward a Planetary Catastrophe?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photo Insert.
520			_a"Human life has been repeatedly transformed by certain key technologies, each of which has triggered a profound metamorphosis. The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter transformed the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa into temperate climates. Symbolic communication changed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural process. Food production transformed the relationship between humanity and the environment, and with technologies of interaction led to the birth of civilization. Precision machinery, developed to build accurate clocks, spawned the industrial revolution and the rise of nation-states; and in the next metamorphosis, the rise of digital technologies may well lead to the birth of a global civilization. Synthesizing the findings of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the modern narrative of human evolution that began with the discovery of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. But the same forces that allowed us to integrate technology into every aspect of our daily lives have also brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe. Unbound explains both how we got here and how human society must be transformed again to achieve a sustainable future. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman evolution.
650		0	_aPopulation.
650		0	_aEnvironmental degradation.
650		0	_aSustainable development.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Paleontology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Ancient / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. _2bisacsh
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