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"Left in the Dark by Graham Gynn and Tony Wright"
One the great puzzles of primate evolution has been the explosive evolution of the anomalous human brain. Another aspect of evolution usually ignored or overlooked by evolutionary biologists has been the certain impact of bioactive plant secondary metabolites, abundant in the omnivorous diet of foraging primates, on the evolution of human cognition, as well as physiological and neurological adaptations. The authors of Left in the Dark have proposed a stunningly innovative and challenging theory that neatly ties together these issues and provides plausible, rational, and scientifically insightful explanations for many of the most persistent... More > mysteries surrounding the evolution of the human brain, cognitive and cultural evolution, and human brain anomalies. The authors also show how human interactions and adaptations to plant secondary compounds continue to profoundly influence individual human development, human behavior, and contemporary societal evolution. The authors have made an ambitious and well-crafted argument, and have done so in an engaging manner that will be comprehensible to any intelligent layman, and will also be of interest to anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, cognitive psychologists, neurophysiologists, ethnobotanists, and virtually anyone else who has ever wondered how humans evolved to be the way we are. < Less

"Review by Ruth Boulton" I would have rated this book ****** if I could work out how to do it!

Function. Diet. Chemistry. Psychology. Sociology. Anthropology. Creativity. Ecology.


EXTRAORDINARY.


This book manages to explain the link between all of these and more and the effects our tragic inherited loss of function has and is increasingly having on us. It takes us to the edge of our potentiality and exposes the inherent key for profound and sustainable change from the inside out.


It is fascinating and engaging reading, written in digestible sections with a balance of scientific information, explanation, personal experience and the odd lacing of dry humour to highlight the message.


It gave me a real sense and explanation of hunches I've had in my work and life, with lots of new ground as 'food for thought'.

With deep thanks,

Ruth Boulton
Music Therapist

"Superb" human evolution, diet, brainwaves and sleep, drugs and super powers.... fascinating read...

"Left In The Dark "
I have never come across a paradigm that fitted so many others into its context.

Not only is it the most comprehensive, science-based understanding of current human nature, but it is also the most reverential.

Offering the highest degree of credible research from numerous fields it shows why Humans are the most inventive of creatures, and cites us with great powers beyond our current knowledge, but also, why we are the most destructive, and in the most stupid of ways.

Fields of research as diverse as these typically do not meet, but Tony's work is forcing a new era, whereby all sciences must find grounds upon which to agree if we are... More > to survive the current epoch.

Ahead of his time, but not a moment to soon. It is time to ask why Humans are so disconnected, greedy and harbouring, to the point of mass genocide.

If we are indeed nature's greatest achievement, then where is the evidence of our abundance and wisdom?

The starving millions, standing in mounds of recyclable plastic, doesn't seem to show such a rosy picture as we would like, so we just ignore it. Why ?

Or are we really, as the book suggests, in the greatest mass dillusion of all time. That actually, what we see as the peaks of our intellectual abilities are driven by our insatiable needs, created in turn by our unprecedented sense of disconnection and loneliness.

Tony's book not only highlights the most terrible depth of our situation, but also brings to bare the great hope that exists from understanding the problem.

The most encompassing, traumatic and yet hopeful book I have even read. < Less

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