Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting On Wednesday hosted at Breaking the Spine.
Expected publication: September 30th 2018 by Cambridge University Press
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment.
This is a nonfiction that I stumbled upon the other day while I was browsing Amazon. It doesn't release until September but I think it sounds super fascinating. It already has some amazing advanced praise so that makes me even more excited. I've always had an interest in evolutionary psychology but I haven't found any books about this certain subject recently so I was excited right away when I read the synopsis. It just sounds like some great brain food for me. :D
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