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In this incredible follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Basic principle, Howard Bloom - one of today's preeminent thinkers - offers us a vivid rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and family pets (including humans) have improved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He details the network of life on Earth as the one which is, in simple fact, a "complex adaptive system," a global brain where each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role. And he shows that the internet is merely the latest step in the development of this brain. They are theories as important because they are radical. Informed by twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Bloom needs us over a spellbinding journey back to the best bang to why don't we see how its fires forged primordial sociality. As he brings us back again via amazing routes, we see how our first bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research-and-development groups a complete 3.5 billion years back. We watch him unravel the recently unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, flocks of traveling lizards, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and ambitious tribes of protohumans distributing across continents but nonetheless linked by primitive varieties of information networking. We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. On the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tips of mind and body that have arranged a number of life varieties: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic Age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the era of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork. This attractive tour continues on to the sometimes brutal subculture wars which may have spurred the development of human being civilization since the Stone Era. Bloom shows us how culture styles our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of fact and mass delusion that we think of as certainty. Global Brain is more than simply a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing issue on the interior workings of development; this can be a "grand perspective," says the eminent evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, a work that changes our very view of who were and why.
