Jorge A. Colombo, MD, PhD is a former Full Professor at the University of South Florida (USA) and Principal Investigator at the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). He is also a former fellow of several international organizations, including NIH (USA), von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), DAAD (Germany), and the British Royal Society.

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: Biological and Cultural Development of Homo Sapiens and Cultural Conditioners

CHAPTER 2: Emergence and Development of Homo sapiens

CHAPTER 3: Further insights on Homo sapiens evolution

Globalized or Segmented?

CHAPTER 4: Biological nature and cultural construction: the concept of tectonic plates

Social and cultural Darwinism, or social construction and multiple cultures?

CHAPTER 5: Brain Evolution and Environmental Interactions Reset Individual Requirements

An excerpt on tool development in Homo evolution

CHAPTER 6: Evolution and Social Inequality

Prosocial behaviour

Between reality and fiction

CHAPTER 7: Primate Behavioural Evolution: it's imprinting on Sapiens Behaviour

CHAPTER 8: Human nature in perspective

CHAPTER 9: Dominance in Evolution

Globalisation and dominance

CHAPTER 10: Long-term social impact of dominance priorities CHAPTER 11: Brief accounts of dominance episodes across history

CHAPTER 12: Menaces to Human Creativeness. Creativeness should be considered a social value

CHAPTER 13: Human bipolar drives: creativity vs. dominance

Education as a potential generator of host-parasite-like induced behaviour or conditioned behavioural profiles. An extended concept.

Concerned conclusions