Human Evolution, Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

Bhanoji Rao is Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, and Governing Board Member, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Visakhapatnam and the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), Hyderabad. He has authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited 18 books, authored/co-authored 62 papers in refereed journals and 14 monographs, and contributed over 100 columns in print media in India and Singapore. His consultancy clientele has included Singapore Airlines, IBM – Singapore, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)–Canada, UNESCAP, the World Bank and most recently Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila.

1 Introduction and context

PART I Human evolution

2 Synoptic view of human evolution via natural selection

3 Human evolution: beyond the physical

PART II Economic progress

4 Population growth and economic progress: pre-industrial through the 1940s

5 Progress since 1950 and the emerging challenges

PART III Understanding and tackling evolutionary failure

6 The idea of evolutionary failure

7 Addressing evolutionary failure: the way forward

Epilogue: hope for humanity