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From Stardust to Self-Awareness: The Epic Journey of the Human Mind
In Хлопок одной ладонью: Как неживая природа породила человеческий разум, evolutionary neurobiologist Nikolay Kukushkin takes readers on a breathtaking voyage spanning 3.5 billion years. The book traces the improbable chain of events that transformed inert matter into the conscious, questioning mind of Homo sapiens.
Kukushkin argues that dinosaurs are responsible for human suffering, that lichens gave us lungs, and that our ancestors' most pivotal evolutionary step was becoming worm-like. This is not a dry scientific treatise but a narrative woven like a chivalric romance or a mythic epic. It reconstructs the world from non-living material to the emergence of language, seeking answers to eternal questions in the deep history of our species.
At 1,710.00 RUR, this debut work offers a radical perspective: life, that teeming carnival of legs, spines, and teeth, managed for billions of years without us. Only in the final moments of history did humanity emerge, asking, "Who am I, and what is the meaning of my life?" Kukushkin’s answer lies in the fossilized past, a journey from inorganic molecules to the very fabric of our inner world.