World History And the Eonic Effect: Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution

At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. The result is often a distorted view of history, and confusion over human evolution. A neglected resource is the study of world history which shows a complex macrohistorical dynamic in a developmental sequence of emerging civilizations. A little detective work will uncover the evidence of a remarkable dynamics at work in the striking evidence of a non-random pattern in our historical backyard.

We live in the first generations with enough historical data to detect such a pattern of Universal History. We see the real evolution of man as the Great Transition, the human passage from evolution to history, in the chronicle of the once and future Origin of the Species, Man.

The fourth edition of World History And The Eonic Effect simplifies the considerable amount of historical theory present in earlier versions. This theory, the so-called 'eonic model', has been streamlined so that the main emphasis in the text is on a simple outline of world history. As we explore this outline the contours of the eonic effect stand out as an empirical given of historical evidence. The failure to grasp that world history itself shows us the solution to the evolution enigma is due to the ideological control exerted over the key incidents that show what is going on,