A Convergence Of Two Minds Origins Of Self-Awareness And Identity [Hardcover]

Annotation Text: A Convergence of Two Minds

100,000 years ago, the two sides of our brain began to deliberate, marking our emergence as human. This is the story of how that ancestral male and female convergence has shaped the modern world.

Gender arrives in the form of our reproductive anatomy at birth, which sets the way the world sees us, whereas gender at the level of the mind sets the way we see the world. The mind is the legacy of life experiences from our male and female ancestors, expressed as maleness and femaleness in the respective hemispheres of the brainour Two Minds. We are anatomically male or female, but in matters of the mindperception and behaviorwe are male and female.

So begins the revolutionary view of gender by Randolph Croxton, which Kirkus Reviews has called &an intriguing theory. Three conclusions are asserted in mapping a new evolutionary pathway into the modern world:

1. 100,000 years ago we emerged as human from an animalistic existencethe result of a convergence of the dominant/aggressive (maleness) left hemisphere with the ascending creative/social (femaleness) right hemisphere of the brain.
2. This birth of self-awareness, simultaneous access to both of our opposite natures (e.g. aggressive/empathetic), gave the ultimate advantage to our species: deliberative thought. Through associated innovation in projectile weapons and social order, we rose to dominate all life.
3. DNA (genetic) was the primary pathway of our evolution up to our emergence, but it was RNA (epigenetic) in the joining of the gendered hemispheres of the brainour Two Mindswhich achieved self-awareness and the infinite variability of the human mindset.

Croxton asserts that RNA/epigenetic processes impart diversity in individual perception, and therefore behavior, with each birthan immediate resilience across the human population. We are each a comlCž