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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nTHE EVER-ADOLESCENT HUMAN\nwith Will Dvorak\n\n\nHow did the human 
 species evolve to become the dominant animal on this planet?  Clive 
 Bromhall‘s book, "The Eternal Child: an Explosive New Theory of Human 
 Origins and Behaviour," is the astonishing story of how each of our 
 personalities has been molded by 6 million years of “infantising” or 
 “neotony,” i.e., physical regression starting from the point at which 
 our distant ape ancestors first left the safety of the forests as 
 intimidating and highly effective gangs of up to 100 soldiers — easily 
 led and cooperative males.  From men’s obsession with swollen breasts to 
 our hairless bodies to our constant search for a pseudo-parental God, 
 everything about the human species is adolescent or infantile. \n\nDesmond 
 Morris praises the book for changing the way we humans see ourselves.  With 
  highly persuasive and startling evidence, Bromhall argues that two of the 
 central pillars of humanity — standing upright and our huge brain — 
 were far from useful when they first evolved, but instead were merely 
 incidental by-products of our ancestors’ increasingly infantile 
 condition.  He explains how we humans can live in huge urban communities, 
 so vast in numbers that no other species could cope with the stress.  He 
 examines how our bodies and our behavior changed over the millennia, as ape 
 became apeman and apeman became modern man.  He reveals the massive impact 
 of our increasingly extended childhood — a childhood that, in one sense, 
 now stretches almost to the grave.\n\nJoin us to learn about Bromhall's 
 theories and to participate in discussion about them!\n\n\n"The Eternal 
 Child"\nby  Clive Bromhall\n\n"Before the Dawn:\nRecovering the lost 
 history of our ancestors"\nby  Nicholas Wade\n\n"Demonic Males, Apes, and 
 the Origins of Human Violence"\nby  Richard Wrangham and Dale 
 Peterson\n\n"Catching Fire:  how cooking made us human"\nby  Richard 
 Wrangham\n\n\nFor a review of the book, see the website shown 
 below.\n\n\nHumanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 
 28th Street\n\n$5 donations are expected.\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/07/18757063.php
SUMMARY:The Ever-Adolescent Human
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390 27th Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/07/18757063.php
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