title: Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
author:  John Hands 
description: In this audacious, ambitious, and philosophically completist study, Hands leads an interdisciplinary search through all the current human knowledge that may help answer two burning questions: What are we, and where do we come from? The result is a pearl of dialectical reasoning between Hands and the most celebrated experts he can find. In todays age of specialization, readers will welcome this throwback to the days of the well-informed layperson, conversant and opinionated in a variety of topics. Hands grounds his musings in logic and scientific fact to produce a thoughtful treatise for the eternally curious<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)</em></strong><br /><br />A thoughtful, well-written volume<br /> - <strong><em>Library Journal</em></strong><br /><br />[A] Book of astonishing ambition and scope.<br /> - <strong><em>TLS (A Best Book of the Year)</em></strong><br /><br />A compendious work that will intrigue serious readers<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus</em></strong><br /><br />This is a truly exceptional piece of work.<br /> - <strong>Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge</strong><br /><br />A magisterial, persuasive and thought provoking survey of the horizons of modern science.<br /> - <strong>Dr James Le Fanu, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine</strong><br /><br />This book is an intellectual tour-de-forcehighly recommended for anyone wishing to get a deeper insight into the fundamental but typically arcane theories that purport to explain where we and the universe that surrounds us are coming from.<br /> - <strong>Professor Francis Heylighen, Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Group, Free University of Brussels</strong><br /><br />A major accomplishment<br /> - <strong>Professor James Shapiro, author of Evolution: A View From The 21st Century</strong><br /><br />Any conventional Darwinist (and I am one of them) will find a lot to take exception to: but disagreement is the fuel of progress and if you enjoy an argument this is the book for you.<br /> - <strong>Professor Steve Jones, author of The Language of the Genes</strong><br /><br />An audacious and admirable bookwritten with engaging style, and the strongest scientific ideas across a swathe of fields in physics and biology are presented lucidly<br /> - <strong>Larry Steinman, Professor of Neurological Science, Stanford University</strong>
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  The Adversary
  
  ### Julian May
  
  **SYNOPSIS**
  
   **THE GALACTIC MILIEU AND THE PLIOCENE EXILE** ****
  
  The Great Intervention of 2013 opened humanity's way to the stars. By the year
  2110, when the action of the first volume in this saga began, Earthlings were
  fully accepted members of a benevolent confederation of planet colonizers, the
  Coadunate
  
  Galactic Milieu, who shared high technology and the capability of performing
  advanced mental operations known as metafunctions. Genes for the five
  principal metapsychic abilities - farsensing, coercion, creativity,
  psychokinesis, and redaction, or healing-had been part of human heredity from
  time immemorial; but the mental powers were at first only rarely manifest,
  remaining mostly latent until evolutionary pressure resulted in increasing
  numbers of operant human metapsychics, being born late in the twentieth
  century.
  
  The five founding races of the Galactic Milieu had observed the slow
  metapsychic development of humanity for te