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What separates man from other primates, or even other animals? Jacob Bronowski, a mathematician trained in physics, the study of human scientific history and intellectual in his book The Ascent of Man. Although the book is based on the television series broadcast by the BBC in 1970, is far from being obsolete. More than 30 years after its first publication, The Ascent of Man still invokes pride in our past and gives hope for our future unity.

Covering a broad canvas the dawn of mankind until modern times Bronowski examines how the man was the architect of your environment instead of being shaped by it. All other species was adapted to fit a particular ecological niche, that have evolved to a particular environment. The man, despite his physical attributes relatively little has been able to shape the world with its unique set of gifts. Bronowski was deemed not to biological evolution, cultural evolution, but was the man he is today.

Monitoring the evolution of man hunters meet the same stage, said the change in the diet of herbal materials, animals gave man more free time spending on capacity building for food sources that can not be addressed by brute force. The major effect of this was to encourage collective action and communication. The next most important step in the ascent of man has been the shift from a nomadic lifestyle in the village of agriculture, made possible by a combination of phenomena natural and human. Sedentary farming creating a technology that all the sciences to take off.

Taking the reader on a journey through time, he delights in Bronowski Inventions and scientific discoveries made in the last ten thousand years of domestication of wheat in 8000 BC to the double helix structure of DNA the 1950's. It describes the tools that extend the hand of man as an instrument of vision, which can reveal new structures and put them together in combinations imaginative.

By delving deeply into the lives and thoughts of an extraordinary variety of people, Bronowski covers a wide range of complex issues, from anthropology to astronomy and mathematics to life sciences. Reveals the links crops by introducing us to Pythagoras, he found a basic harmony between music and mathematics, Euclid Ptolemy, and Arab scholars who delighted in the calculation and geometry. The author shows how the diffusion of ideas along trade routes – The spread of digital system to record the number of Arab and Indian decimal system – math has changed forever.

Mathematics to astronomy is a logical step. Mayan astronomers located in a pyramidal structure and training programs to follow the path of the stars, Copernicus placed the sun at the center of the planetary system and Galileo gave his life to prove that this was so. The lives of these people have a deep impact on the modern lifestyle. Even if you do not take into account the rise of man can ignore Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, Bronowski describes his work. He shows us how and how they thought their characters defined by their work.

The industrial revolution was the greatest discoverer of a time when new power energy sources have been discovered and used. With the entry of many features of the modern world that I hate the factory system with inhumane working hours, bosses tyrannical, pollution and the domination of men by machines. Although the focus in our opinion, Bronowski not let the other side of this age – the largest thrill of discovery and sense of humor to find new ways of doing things. It believes that this revolution is as important as the Renaissance in the rise of man-all which establishes the dignity of man and the other established the unity of nature.

Description of the theory of evolution by natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, Bronowski said it was the largest single scientific innovation of the nineteenth century. This shows that the world is moving and creating no is static, it evolves over time unlike the physical world. Another discovery that has shaped the biology is one of contemporary scientists who express life cycle in a chemical form that binds them to nature as a whole.

Turing to the physical sciences, Bronowski says the goal of science was natural for give an accurate picture of the material world. The realization of the twentieth century physics was to show that the goal is unattainable! Physicists have shown that there is no knowledge all, all information is imperfect and must be treated with humility.

In the last chapter in the book, entitled Children long, Bronowski goes back to what makes humans human and what has made the ascent of man possible. He said: "We are all afraid -. For our confidence in the future to the world that is the nature of the human imagination. However, every man, every civilization has advanced because of their commitment to what he has to do. The man's personal commitment to his ability, intellectual commitment and emotional commitment to work together as one, made the ascent of man. "

Ilmas Futehally is the Vice President of Strategic Foresight Group, a think tank based in Mumbai, India.

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