Machine generated contents note: 1. Why We Are Who We Are: A Sociocultural Geology of Today's World
The Rock of Civilizations
Family-Sex-Gender Systems
Sediments of Six Waves of Globalization
Pathways to Modernity and Their Legacy
Legacies of the Routes to Modernity
The Modern Fate of Religions
2. World Dynamics: Human Evolution and its Drivers
Modes of Livelihood: The Ups and Downs of Capitalism, and the Rest
Population Ecology and the Ending of Modern Ecological Emancipation
The Ethnic, Religious and Sexual Dynamics of Recognition and Respect
Politics of Collective Power: State Apotheosis
Culture: Modernism Globalized, Accelerated and Chastened
3. The Current World Stage
4. Our Time on Earth: Courses of Life
An Ideal Twenty-first Century Life-course
Conclusion: How We Got Here, and Where We Are Going
