Book about survival?

[Vynce]

So please tell me there is a book on the metaphysics, psychology and general dynamics of survival.

Im sure there a million books about survival, but not in this intricate and sneaky way survival actually operates in humans, as it seems. 

[Basman]

I find the book series by Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, 21 Lessons For The 20th Century and Homo deus excellent reads on the survival challenges of humanity, historically, politically and in the future. Sapiens in particular has shaped a lot of my understanding of human nature.

[RightHand]

Ralston pioneered this field. Check out his books if you haven't already. Start with the Book of Not Knowing, it dives deep into how survival shapes your reality.

[Vynce]

1 hour ago, Basman said:

I find the book series by Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, 21 Lessons For The 20th Century and Homo deus excellent reads on the survival challenges of humanity, historically, politically and in the future. Sapiens in particular has shaped a lot of my understanding of human nature.

Yeah I read them all. But I don’t find them to be going super deep into the nitty gritty of the different million survival aspects of being a human. 

[Vynce]

1 hour ago, RightHand said:

Ralston pioneered this field. Check out his books if you haven't already. Start with the Book of Not Knowing, it dives deep into how survival shapes your reality.

Heard about that. Might give it a try. 

[TimStr]

I would also recomment Ian McGilcrist - Master and his Emmissairy on the topic of survival.

[Raze]

Deep Survival, by Laurence Gonzales

The Gift of Fear, by Gavin de Becker

What Cops Know, by Connie Fletcher

The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith

Edited January 23 by Raze

[Rafael Thundercat]

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291621

Inheritance a book about how conformism work. Is from a Antropologist who lived in Papua Guiné Tribes and realized many things about how culture works, and how slowly humans goes creating this thing called Culture or Conformities. 

Sinopsis:

 

Each of us is endowed with an inheritance—a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive empires. But now, for the first time, it’s failing us. We find ourselves hurtling toward a future of unprecedented political polarization, deadlier war, and irreparable environmental destruction.

In Inheritance, renowned anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how our biases have shaped humanity’s past and imperil its future. He argues that three biases—conformism, religiosity, and tribalism—drive human behavior everywhere. Forged by natural selection and harnessed by thousands of years of cultural evolution, these biases catalyzed the greatest transformations in human history, from the birth of agriculture and the arrival of the first kings to the rise and fall of human sacrifice and the creation of multiethnic empires. Taking us deep into modern-day tribes, including terrorist cells and predatory ad agencies, Whitehouse shows how, as we lose the cultural scaffolding that allowed us to manage our biases, the world we’ve built is spiraling out of control.

By uncovering how human nature has shaped our collective history, Inheritance unveils a surprising new path to solving our most urgent modern problems. The result is a powerful reappraisal of the human journey, one that transforms our understanding of who we are, and who we could be.

Edited January 23 by Rafael Thundercat