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    The Pattern of Life: A Study of Man’S Place in Evolution
    The Pattern of Life: A Study of Man’S Place in Evolution
    The Pattern of Life: A Study of Man’S Place in Evolution
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    The Pattern of Life: A Study of Man’S Place in Evolution

    By Börje Ekstig

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    Our planet is crowded with a spectacular diversity of living creatures. As a most peculiar fact, the oldest of these are in general the most primitive whereas the most recent are the most advanced. How can evolution be working in order to bring about such a counterintuitive result? This raises the challenging question of a direction of evolution. Is it proceeding in a certain direction, is it improving, is it even accelerating?

    By introducing the concept of complexity, the author suggests a new way of describing the process of evolution. In this conception, the human cultural evolution is found to be a continuous extension of biological evolution in a common process of ever increasing complexity, characterized as a stepwise, cumulative progression.

    What is mans place in this process? Is it meaningful to reflect upon this at all? In fact, in asking this very question we have at the same time answered it. No other creature would. Our brains provide us with a fantastic range of exclusive cognitive abilities and in this respect we are unique.

    In this book, we embark on an innovative, exploratory and inter-disciplinary adventure, step by step following the author towards his quest of investigating evolution, its direction and the place of ourselves in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateApr 26, 2011
    ISBN9781456779542
    The Pattern of Life: A Study of Man’S Place in Evolution
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    Börje Ekstig

    Brje Ekstig is a Ph.D. of physics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is now retired but has most of his professional time worked with teacher training. In addition, he has long been interested in the evolutionary process, an interest that was reinforced by his discovery of a regular pattern in evolution, the analysis of which forms the topic of the present book.

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      The Pattern of Life - Börje Ekstig

      Meditations of the Heart

      Poems For A Spirtual Journey

      By Jack Zaffos

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      Table of Contents

      First Poem

      After The Rain

      A November Dusk

      A Winter Solstice

      Cloud Trance

      Another November Poem

      December, 1999

      Deep Winter

      Entering Out Of A Frantic Trance

      Deft Operator

      G-d Only Knows

      Ha Makom (Hebrew for The Place)

      Meditation On The New Turbulence

      Listen

      Melting

      New Day

      November 27, 1987

      Pantoum for a Journey

      Pantoum at a Pond

      Poem On A Key Board

      Questions

      Roots

      Rhythms

      Ha Sadeh See the Sleeping Field

      Shadow Dream

      Snow Flake

      So Much More

      Spring Meadow

      Still Morning

      Place

      Radical Amazement Summer Day In The 1950’s

      Summer Turns To Fall

      The Last Hunt

      Thirsty Earth

      3 Haiku

      Two Geese

      Unknown Poem I

      Unknown Poem II

      Winter

      Wiser

      Paths and Roads

      A Moment

      A New Path Leads Me On

      Resting In A Pancake House

      Angel Voice-US 19A

      August 27, 1996

      Beneath

      Briarcliff Café

      City Rhythms

      Dreams

      Community

      Dabble #1 The Belly Dancer Says Hello

      Dabble #2 A Knock At The Door

      EXPECTATIONS

      Facing A High-rise Of Memories

      40 years After

      Frenchman’s Bay

      Ghosts

      Golden Gate

      Goodbye Friend

      I Return

      Tears Came by Laughter

      If !!

      Journey

      Land Of Nikos

      Lexington Avenue Rose

      May 5, 2008 Post Retirement

      May 19, 1991

      Misty Night

      November 6 Revisited

      Ocean

      Path

      Preparations For A Journey

      Regrets and Broken Dreams

      Revisit

      The Photo (In an instant)

      To My Daughter

      Tones Of Flowing

      Tunnel of Broken Dreams

      When In An Emotional Wasteland

      The new Orange Paint

      Poems from a Beit Midrash

      A River Of Light

      Chochma (Hebrew for Wisdom)

      Flint Rock

      Hitbodedut in Tiberius 25th Day Of Shevat 5766 (February 2006)

      How Do I Bring You On This Journey?

      Kotzer Ruach

      Living Waters

      Modeh Ani

      Narrow Place

      Neglected Old Fig Tree

      New Alone Poem

      One Hundred Blasts

      Prayer

      Preparation for A Jubilee (For retirement)

      Purim Poem 5763 2003 after the start of the Iraq war

      Retreat

      River Bank

      Scotty

      Shofar Sound

      Something Happened

      Stream

      The Book Lies Open : A poem for The Days Of Awe

      The Land Of Becoming

      The Lot Fell on Yonah

      These Matters Shall Be Upon Your Heart

      Torah

      True Name

      Tu Bishvat

      Vineyards Not Yet Harvested

      Yizkor They Will Remember

      Yom Hashoa Holocaust Remembrance Day

      Your Light Has Come

      First Poem

      by Jack

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