Note for the book: include a chapter on Evolutionary Medicine as showed by George C. Williams & Randolph M. Nesse (1994) and Nesse (2019), as you saw some time ago. Do not forget to watch the Yale Evolutionary Medicine Course. More things to remember? Yes.
Include a chapter on the emergence on consciousness; cf. Nicholas Humphrey, Seeing Red and Soul Dust. You wrote an essay on this some time ago. Emergence of religion.
Include a chapter on the Enlightenment as the new era after Christianity in the West. References from the 6-volume work by Jonathan Israel. Politics and evolution. Science.
Include Capitalism and the Anthropocene, Climate Change, the Sixth Mass Extinction. Free Market ideology (liberal economics) as the enemy of the Radical Enlightenment. The Great Transformation and the Great Acceleration of Free Market capitalism. Cultural evolution. Our extended phenotype. Language as tool; cf. Steve Pinker. Do not forget Peter Ward, The Medea Hypothesis (2009) Fine ending? Perfect ending for the book. A tragic one. Swan song. “One only communicates with force from the bottom of the grave; that is where one must imagine oneself; and it is from there that one should speak to mankind,” as Denis Diderot said in his Essay on the Reigns of Claudius and Nero (1782).
Keep focused, Max. No time to waste.
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