Spencer Wells - The Unforeseen Cost of Human Civilisation
Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells describes his race to produce an invaluable genetic snapshot of ...
Integral Options Cafe: Seed Magazine - Spencer Wells: Pandora's ...
Integral Options Cafe Integral Options Cafe offers a place to discuss all things related to a Buddhist, integral worldview. I invite comments, different points of view, and anything that can add to a civil discussion of living in an integral world. " There never was a golden age - unless disease, early death, and other forms of pre-industrial and pre-information age life seem like fun to you. I think it's important to note that while we need to figure out ways to deal with the changes modern and postmodern civilization is bringing us, we should not seek the "return" to some kind of "golden age. While theory is important (Buddhism, Ken Wilber, Spiral Dynamics, psychology, and Integral Theory), so is politics, art & poetry, human values, popular culture, and humor. During my work as a geneticist and anthropologist I’ve been lucky enough to work with people around the world, ranging from senior politicians and the heads of major corporations to hunter-gatherer tribesmen eking out a precarious existence in......
He's the author of "The Journey of Man," "Deep Ancestry" and his latest book, "Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization." He lives in Washington,
