Felipe Heemann: Erectus | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9786598812669 | Erectus | Why is it the 'wrong' species that survived? | Heemann

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Erectus is a philosophical and scientific investigation into the possibility that the human species which endured was not the one best suited for longterm survival. Drawing on evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, cognitive neuroscience, and existential philosophy, Felipe Heemann examines the profound disparity between our extraordinary technical efficacy and our catastrophic evolutionary effectiveness.

Where Homo erectus persisted for more than a million years in relative ecological equilibrium, Homo sapiens developed a hypertrophied cortex and a recursive, symbolic language that allowed us to inhabit psychological pasts and imagined futures-temporalities that generate chronic anxiety, depression, and existential dread. These forms of suffering are not civilizational malfunctions to be corrected, but structural consequences of our neurocognitive architecture.

Rejecting romantic primitivism and human exceptionalism alike, Erectus confronts the brutal naturalistic possibility that our survival was an accident whose costs we are only beginning to understand. Without consolation or optimism, the book invites the reader to face the mirror of our lineage with clarity, rigor, and a rare existential honesty.

Über den Autor

Felipe Heemann A. Ribeiro is a professor, evolutionary biologist, molecular neurobiologist, and linguist whose scholarly formation extends equally into Physics and Mathematics. He has dedicated his intellectual trajectory to reconstructing the bridges between Science and the Humanities that modernity has systematically dismantled. A graduate in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP), his work moves across these fields and into Philosophy, tracing the contours of a restless and transdisciplinary mind. His essays invite the reader into the history of ideas - guided by scientific rigor and the sensitivity of a committed educator. In his pages, Science ceases to be mere explanation: it becomes narrative, beauty, and revelation.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Fachbereich:	Gentechnologie
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Consilience
ISBN-13:	9786598812669
ISBN-10:	6598812666
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Heemann, Felipe
Hersteller:	Brain Codex Consilience
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	Felipe Heemann
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.03.2026
Gewicht:	0,202 kg