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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Etat : Sehr gut. 158 Seiten Das Buch bietet eine Anleitung zum Kopieren von 30 berühmten Gemälden. Es unterstützt den Leser dabei, eigene Meisterwerke zu malen, indem es Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zur Verfügung stellt. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! HC1-581-8/8-00583669 Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 953.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Every creation myth ever recorded begins in the same place. Darkness, formless and without meaning, and then a moment when light arrives and the world begins. Why does this single story appear in every human tradition, from Genesis to the Rig Veda to the myths of peoples who never met? And what, if anything, does it remember?The Universal Dawn sets out to answer that question using the tools its predecessors lacked. Drawing on genetics, archaeology, climate science, and the study of oral tradition, Mark Cocos Copas traces the real history that the world's oldest stories may preserve: the slow emergence of the symbolic mind across hundreds of thousands of years, the other human species who crossed the same cognitive threshold before us and then vanished, and the catastrophes of the last ice age that drowned coastlines and remade the inhabited world within the span of human memory.Along the way the book asks unsettling questions and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Why did the stone hand axe remain almost unchanged for over a million years before the human mind suddenly caught fire? Were the Denisovans, a vanished human species who lived for tens of thousands of years in the high mountains of Asia, the original gods on the mountain remembered in the traditions of the people who came after them? What do flood narratives, found in nearly every culture on earth, preserve of the real and catastrophic drowning of the world's coastlines as the glaciers melted? And why, across continents that never met, do the oldest stories so often agree?This is a book about where the light came from. Not the light of physics, but the light of mind, the moment our species began to ask where it had come from and to remember the answer in story. Working only from mainstream evidence, and holding its hardest questions open rather than forcing them closed, it argues that myth is not the opposite of history but one of its oldest and most durable records.Rigorous, far reaching, and written for the curious reader as much as the specialist, The Universal Dawn reframes the deep human past as a single connected story: how we became the species that needed to tell stories at all. By weaving together ancient folklore and modern science, this work explores whether our oldest legends are actually encoded memories of lost human species and cataclysmic environmental shifts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Universal Dawn | Mark Coco¿ Copas | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Mark Coco¿ Copas | EAN 9789730443189 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.