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Why Are We Here?

The Story of the Origin, Evolution, and Future of Life on Our Planet

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Why Are We Here?

Von: Bruce Brodie
Gesprochen von: Mike Lenz
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From the big bang to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why Are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet.

Through many years of research and study, Brodie addresses a host of questions:

  • How did chemistry come to life?
  • How did the release of oxygen by cyanobacteria change the natural history of life?
  • How did mass extinctions reset the clock and reshape the course of biological evolution?
  • Why are homo sapiens so dominant?
  • Why do humans build vast civilizations, while chimps, with whom we share more than 98 percent of our DNA, are confined to forests and experimental laboratories and zoos?
  • How will cultural and technological evolution, which have transcended the slow pace of biological evolution, shape the future of life on the planet?
  • Can we escape the many existential threats that hover over us?

Why Are We Here? offers a new perspective on how we think about the world, our place and our purpose in the universe, and the future of humanity. It presents a lasting sense of the amazing wonder and mystery of life.

©2019 Bruce Brodie (P)2019 Bruce Brodie Wissenschaft
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Another attempt adding to the long list of people feeling a call to write a book about the general "How?" of the existence of the universe and humankind. It's by far not the best effort in this genre, lacking both depth of analysis and variety of perspectives. The book tells a tale fully to the liking of the Neodarwinists and New Atheists, it's based on a naive understanding of science. If there is an original thought in this book, I must have failed to hear it. As I'm well versed in the "how everything came to happen" genre and as especially it's not been long since I read the much more thoroughly researched and much more complete "Cosmosapiens" by John Hands which deals, in large parts, with similar topics, I can say that Brodie's attempt falls short to comparable works by quite a large distance.

Huge scope, superficially tackled

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