{"product_id":"before-the-first-spear-jairo-martins-9798187805280","title":"Before the First Spear: The Great Filter Between Animal Cognition and Technological Civilization","description":"For more than half a billion years, Earth produced eyes, brains, societies, communication, and countless forms of animal cognition. Yet only one lineage developed recorded language, workshops, industry, and a planetary technosphere. Why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore the First Spear argues that the missing link between cognition and civilization is not simply a larger brain, but a rare convergence: a body able to manipulate its surroundings, prolonged parental care, a capacity inherited from an earlier habitat, ecological disruption that releases that capacity for a new use, a physical shortfall tools can compensate for, and an immediate payoff that makes the first technique worth repeating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together human evolution, material culture, fire, agriculture, the Drake equation, and the Fermi paradox, Jairo Martins introduces the Initiator Organism Hypothesis. The result is a rigorous, accessible investigation of the Great Filter: the Universe may contain many living worlds, yet very few animals able to begin the path toward a technological civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jairo Martins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187805280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Jairo Martins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665923412223,"sku":"9798187805280","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-the-first-spear-jairo-martins-9798187805280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}