An Almanac of Us: The Story of the Superpowers That Made Us Human (The Human Code)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2025
Series: Book 2 of 5 - The Human Code
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- Title
- An Almanac of Us: The Story of the Superpowers That Made Us Human (The Human Code)
- Author
- Ganesh, Ujjwal
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798267484480
- Item weight
- 512.6 grams
- Series
- Book 2 of 5: The Human Code
The answer is a story of rebellion. Not against kings or gods, but against the limits of our own biology. In this profound and sweeping work of big history, author and storyteller Ujjwal Ganesh reveals that our ascent was not a story of slow, patient evolution. It was a series of radical “superpowers” we seized by outsourcing our bodies, our minds, and our very evolution to outside forces. This is the epic of the Unnatural Animal—a creature that dared to remake itself.
An Almanac of Us is a journey into the soul of our species, revealing the hidden price and unforeseen consequences of our greatest inventions.
Inside, you will discover:
- The taming of fire, our first external stomach, which shrunk our guts to feed our growing brains and made us the first true world-shapers.
- The pact with the wolf, a rival predator who became our external senses and may have secured our place as the sole surviving human on Earth.
- The devil’s bargain of the Agricultural Revolution, a slow-motion trap that gave birth to hierarchy, the state, and a new, permanently anxious mind.
- The invisible architects of civilization: how writing conquered forgetting, how the number zero gave a shape to nothingness, and how the printing press gave ideas their own escape velocity.
- The final, breathtaking leap to mastery, from harnessing the hurricane of the Industrial Revolution to learning to read and rewrite the code of life itself with DNA and CRISPR.
It is a story that will forever change how you see human history—and yourself.
The story of our past is written. The page of our future is blank. Turn the first page and begin the journey.
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