Dangerous Mind: On The Origin Of Pseudo Species

by Christopher Malden

Dangerous Mind .... .... traverses a landscape dominated by the insatiable but often destructive hunger of Homo sapiens - from the nature and origins of language and the use of numbers, from prehistoric cave art to the Renaissance, from the second World War to nuclear physics, modern genetics and neuroscience. The author brings together the research of the world's leading thinkers, from Darwin to Dawkins, and a host of acclaimed scientists to discover the truth behind the remorseless rise of our species. This fascinating account of mankind's emergence is essential reading for anyone who is in the least intellectually curious, whether ardent humanist, cynic or sceptic, layman or scientist. For all members of our sometimes benign but often brutal human race, these novel insights and a new view of our mental evolution help shed light on the age -old questions 'Who are we?' and 'Why are we here?'

236 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2009

About the author

When the bombs were falling on London I was born just East of the city. We didn't stay long; after two bombs fell - one either side of the house - my parents, elder sister and brother moved to Oxford. Here I fell in love with nature. School, though, was a trial: I realise now I was traumatised by war and being sent to a Catholic boarding school aged three-and-a-half. My parents were poor and the family disorganised. With my sister and brother at the same convent, I was eight before proper schooling and my real difficulties began.
People are driven to write, sometimes by deep-seated motives and I wrote both poetry and fiction. I've always painted, too. What crept up on me, and came as a real surprise, was a facility for a kind of logic, leading me to question accepted thinking in many different spheres.
Which is how I came to write "Dangerous Mind - On the Origin of Pseudo Species"
Like almost everyone, Darwin and Evolution raises for me both fascinating questions and still- unresolved dilemmas.
And too often ordinary thinking men and women get excluded from having their say. But this topic is far from clearly understood, even by acknowledged experts.
So now it's your turn! A readable (I hope!)description of what really happened to make humans so astonishingly different from other occupants of our 'wonderful world'.
But what's most needed is your comments observations and criticisms,
no matter how 'whacky', serious, soberly sane or refreshingly enlightened.
I hope to start a forum on the subject for you to air your views.