Overview
«¿Por qué fui abusado?». En busca de las respuestas a esa pregunta, el cirujano digestivo chileno James Hamilton, quien obligó a modificar las políticas pontificias en la prevención de abusos y logró que los abusos a menores y adolescentes no prescribieran en su país, se embarcó en una profunda investigación para entender el origen de la violencia y el mal en el ser humano.
Homo Exul indaga en la pregunta de por qué, en un momento preciso de la historia, los homínidos dejaron de cooperar y comenzaron a mostrar conductas violentas. Defiende, además, que la mayoría de dolencias y enfermedades crónicas que hoy nos afectan (desde la obesidad hasta el alzhéimer) son consecuencia de ese mismo proceso evolutivo que, por fuerza, conllevó importantes cambios sociales y alimenticios en adultos, niños y lactantes.
Lanza, además, una importante pregunta: ¿estamos a tiempo de revertir estas marcas evolutivas y convertirnos de nuevo en una sociedad cooperativa?
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Ninety-seven percent of human history is a story of collaboration. Empathy, altruism and compassion were once the main reasons for our species’ survival, but the great impact that shook the planet more than 12,000 years ago had devastating consequences. For sapiens, it led to a mental and social break without precedent in millions of years of hominid history.”
“Why was I abused?” To answer this question, digestive surgeon James Hamilton, whose testimony played an important role in changing the Catholic Church’s policy on abuse and the end of the statute of limitations for the abuse of children and adolescents in Chile, embarked on a project to understand the origins of violence and evil in human beings.
Homo Exul examines the reasons why, at a specific point in history, hominids stopped cooperating and began displaying violent behavior. It also argues that most of the chronic diseases and syndromes that affect us today (from obesity to Alzheimer’s) are consequences of the same evolutionary process that radically changed human social structure and nutrition.
Above all, it asks a crucial question: are we still in time to reverse these evolutionary changes and go back to being a society based on cooperation?
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