Product description An engineer, with mysterious health issues, is forced to learn about anatomy, biology and medicine out of sheer frustration with countless medical experts’ failure to find a cause. In doing so he makes a startling discovery about the human body that changes his entire outlook on health, well-being and ultimately life itself. His discovery gives way to a new hypothesis on evolution stating that evolution is not directed by natural selection, as Darwin’s theory suggests, but by persistent stress. Darwin’s theory states that natural variation exists in populations and some individuals with certain traits will have higher survival rates than others and pass these inheritable genetic features to their offspring. Through natural selection, these traits that prove advantageous to survival will prevail into future generations. This process will give rise to populations that have evolved to succeed in specific environments. This success, according to his theory, is the key mechanism of evolution. In other words, the environment or environmental changes have no impact on evolution. His theory is wrong. The discovery of epigenetics alone proves his theory incorrect. Life is a highly sensitive, responding entity and it uses persistent stress as a measurement of an organism’s fitness in its environment. If not adapt, or persistent stress is high, it passes this information forward to future generations to direct gene expression and ultimately evolution. In other words, life is programmed to increase variation about its stress point. Humans are different than anything on this planet for one reason. It’s not intelligence. It’s socialness, which is the ability to work and adjust to challenges together in large groups for a common goal. No other species in the history of this planet has this ability. It is our special gift. However, our special ability brings forth a new set of challenges. We have radically altered our environment far beyond our adaptation. In other words, we have created our own persistent stresses. Pesticides, food manipulation, air pollution, water pollution. The list goes on and on. Life is constantly measuring this new stress and passing this information forward to future generations to change.Autism is a socialness disorder. It is a condition without our special gift. However, autism is not separate from us, it is part of us. It is evidence that life is radically increasing variation and expression across social genes that we all commonly share. Autism, Asperger’s, high functioning autism and social anxiety disorders are all part of the human spectrum and evidence that we are all becoming, as a society, less social.Find out how this discovery about the human body opened up a whole new world on how life and evolution actually work and what this means for the fate of the human species.