The Story of Our Lives : World Scientific Publishing : 9789811247347 : 981124734X : 03 Apr 2022 : We are restless, world-changing organisms. The last two centuries are characterized by the exponential growth of our knowledge and understanding of ourselves, of the world we live in and of the interactions between the two. Part of the living world, we are the only organism that continuously designs, creates and combines a multitude of abilities to harness the rules of nature, manipulating our environment, its resources and even our own bodies to fit them to our ever-changing needs and desires, each generation continuing from the point that the previous one left off. What is it that enables us to be one of the living organisms of this planet, sharing some 99 percent of our DNA as well as some of our basic behaviors with other organisms, yet at the same time so different, unique and powerful? Coalescing understandings driven from a wide array of disciplines such as biology, psychology, anth