Eonix Papers

How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human raceThe discovery of the bones of tiny primitive people on an Indonesian island six years ago stunned scientists. Now, further research suggests that the little apemen, not Homo erectus, were the first to leave Africa and colonise other parts of the world, reports Robin McKie
It [...]

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Picture of a print from David Roberts’ Egypt & Nubia, issued between 1845 and 1849.
The New Wikimedia Commons has a lot of interesting images, many in the public domain from before 1925.

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http://www.amazon.com/review/R1GNO8ZCBJ6WNY/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

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Changing History
Four new ways to write the story of the world

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I have restored the old ’site blog’ here, on the way to some more work on the various websites to do with the eonic effect, at history-and-evolution.com, and eonic-effect.net.
You can see read the First and Last Men netbook at http://eonix-papers.com/lfm.htm
New material and a fourth edition of World History and the Eonic Effect are on the [...]

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The Age of Paine
Thomas Paine has sometimes had few readers beyond those students who are required to read his great revolutionary pamphlet “Common Sense,” the firebrand Paine wielded to spread the flame of independence throughout the British colonies in America.

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Does religion have a monopoly on ‘enchantment’?
Weber linked rationalisation with ‘the disenchantment of the world’. But is it fair to equate the lack of religion to an absence of magic and mystery?
In 1918, the German sociologist, Max Weber, claimed that the spreading influence of scientific rationalism meant that religious explanations of the world would become [...]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster
Until the late 1600s, Zoroaster was generally dated to about the sixth century BCE, which coincided with both the “Traditional date” (see details below) and historiographic accounts (Ammianus Marcellinus xxiii.6.32, fourth c. CE). However, already at the time (late nineteenth century), the issue was far from settled, with James Darmesteter pleading for a later date [...]

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Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, on the rise of modernity

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Empires of the Silk Road
Interesting book on the Indo-European question, quite apart from its larger history of Central Eurasia.
This issue is important for the study of the eonic sequence, since the appearance of the Indo-Europeans prior to their intersection with the sequence in the Axial Age is essential for understanding the Greeks, Romans, and Indians. [...]

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New online selections from World History And The Eonic Effect:
A Frequency Hypothesis
Idea For A Universal History

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New selections are now online for World History And The Eonic Effect: start here, A Glimpse Of Evolution

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Impact of Social Darwinism in Nazi Germany – Get more College Essays

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From the Old Testament to a secular ‘universal history’
with a selection from WHEE

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Armstrong and her tactics of deceit and VIP propaganda.
Her book The Great Transformation did immense harm to the archaeological site of the so-called Axial Age. Appearing in the wake of the first edition of World History And The Eonic Effect this book, without any acknowledgment stripped the Axial Age of its macrohistorical/evolutionary significance, and proceed [...]

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WATCHERS OF THE SKIES
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
By Richard Holmes (HarperPress 554pp £25)
Whatever C P Snow may have decreed about an unbridgeable divide between the Two Cultures, Romantic writers were fully aware of recent scientific discoveries. As a twenty-year-old medical student, John Keats spent a [...]

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Updated, Recent Posts at Darwiniana

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History And Evolution: the Axial Age

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Some interesting posts from September
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/29/beyond-the-synthesisand-no-new-synthesis/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/29/what-is-evolution/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/29/the-eonic-effect-art-language-and-evolution/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/28/invisible-hand-theories-markets-and-economies/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/28/the-eonic-effect-language-and-invisible-hand/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/27/the-old-testament-teaching-the-controversy/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/27/is-moral-freedom-inside-or-outside-of-nature/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/26/reinventing-the-sacred-classical-samkhya/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/25/obama-on-evolution/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/24/schopenhauer-and-the-caveman-buddhas/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/21/a-question-from-darwinian-conservatism-blog/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/21/if-the-invisible-hand-is-dead-so-is-darwinism-no-bailout-for-darwins-theory/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/21/critique-of-evolutionary-economy/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/21/darwinian-junk-theory-reaches-the-bailout-debate/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/18/obamamccain-evolution-toward-a-postdarwinian-liberalism/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/14/the-eonic-effect-the-only-evolution-you-are-going-to-discover/
http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/14/the-eonic-effect-the-only-evolution-you-are-going-to-discover/

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Discussion of the book Kantian Ethics And Socialism

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