Shlain is a master of connectivity, bringing seemingly disparate concepts together to form a new synthesis and understanding of human nature, history and existence.

It's difficult to tell whether this fascinating thinker will be viewed as the next Darwin or as a crank, but there's no denying this is an audacious work in the realm of evolutionary biology. He takes readers on another mind trip with 2003’s Sex, Time and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution (Viking Books 16).

Shlain reveals how he came upon them, frequently with colorful anecdotes that show these are questions he's been wrestling with for many years. A consistently engaging writer, Shlain traces the course of his own evolving ideas with what might be called a didactic wit: bold statements are first writ large, then Dr. As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlains provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they. Whatever conclusions the reader comes to, the author exposes the underlying gender biases in so many scientific assumptions the result is one of those books that cannot help but alter one's perceptions. Leonard Shlain reads from and discusses ‘Sex, Time and Power’ on Monday, May 9, at 7:30pm. Extremists in all the organized religions are advancing an agenda of exclusion and otherness which portends ill for our future. Shlain contends, for instance, that women essentially invented the concept of time due to their experience of menses. One of the most dangerous trends in the world today is religiosity. And they are-whether or not they turn out to be factual. As in his excellent prior work The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (which holds that there are links between the ascendancy of patriarchy and written language and the descent of matriarchal societies and goddess-based religions), some of the concepts proposed in this book might seem a bit of a stretch.

Shlain ties to the biological differences between men and women. This book sets out to explore why and when people evolved so far away from other mammals in several key ways, all of which Dr.

Sex, Time, and Power by Leonard Shlain