Evolution and Value
... that we are necessarily inclined to have values, including ethical values, by which (the “moral sense”) we identify our actions as either right or wrong. Affirmative answers to this first question do not necessarily determine what values we may have. Even if we conclude that people cannot avoid havi ...
... that we are necessarily inclined to have values, including ethical values, by which (the “moral sense”) we identify our actions as either right or wrong. Affirmative answers to this first question do not necessarily determine what values we may have. Even if we conclude that people cannot avoid havi ...
MODULE 1: ANTHROPOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND STORYTELLING
... The Great Chain of Being The idea that the world is fixed and unchanging—and that the various forms of life that are part of that world also do not change—was present in ancient Greek philosophy. Greek ideas were adopted and adapted by thinkers in the Judeo-Christian religious traditions of Western ...
... The Great Chain of Being The idea that the world is fixed and unchanging—and that the various forms of life that are part of that world also do not change—was present in ancient Greek philosophy. Greek ideas were adopted and adapted by thinkers in the Judeo-Christian religious traditions of Western ...
Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness
... been successful applied to understand learned behavior in a wide range of species. As a consequence, the evolutionary social science community by and large rejected the idea that culture makes any fundamental difference in the way that evolutionary thinking should be applied to humans. The genes und ...
... been successful applied to understand learned behavior in a wide range of species. As a consequence, the evolutionary social science community by and large rejected the idea that culture makes any fundamental difference in the way that evolutionary thinking should be applied to humans. The genes und ...
Comparing Creation and Evolution
... man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development of organic living beings would be unthinkable.” A few pages later, he said, “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” But as real scie ...
... man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development of organic living beings would be unthinkable.” A few pages later, he said, “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” But as real scie ...
Explaining robust humans
... initially, after the ‘fall of man’, humans were designed to live for hundreds of years, then this would most likely have a bearing on development processes and timings. Simply put, longevity would probably be associated with changes in development,11 not just the aging process. From a design point o ...
... initially, after the ‘fall of man’, humans were designed to live for hundreds of years, then this would most likely have a bearing on development processes and timings. Simply put, longevity would probably be associated with changes in development,11 not just the aging process. From a design point o ...
Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens
... With regard to modern H. sapiens, it is interesting to note that body and brain size were even greater in H. neanderthalensis; there is no obvious physical explanation for the success of H. sapiens and the demise of H. neanderthalensis11. A beautiful mind: insights from comparative neuroanatomy. The ...
... With regard to modern H. sapiens, it is interesting to note that body and brain size were even greater in H. neanderthalensis; there is no obvious physical explanation for the success of H. sapiens and the demise of H. neanderthalensis11. A beautiful mind: insights from comparative neuroanatomy. The ...
Homo
... Neanderthals around 34,000 years ago. • They used sophisticated tools and likely had full language capabilities. ...
... Neanderthals around 34,000 years ago. • They used sophisticated tools and likely had full language capabilities. ...
Third Edition
... of a species – Biological races do not exist among humans • Human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups • Biological variation between human populations involves gradual shifts (clines) in gene frequencies and other biological features, not sharp ...
... of a species – Biological races do not exist among humans • Human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups • Biological variation between human populations involves gradual shifts (clines) in gene frequencies and other biological features, not sharp ...
The Environmental Dynamics of Human Evolution
... Olorgesailie, S. Kenya Rift How did early humans adjust to environmental change over the past 1 million years? ...
... Olorgesailie, S. Kenya Rift How did early humans adjust to environmental change over the past 1 million years? ...
molbev_31_4news 1056..1057
... Europeans. “Using ancient DNA and computer simulations, we show that strong natural selection has acted on lactase persistence in Iberia over the last 7,000 years. Sunlight in Iberia is sufficient to allow the synthesis of vitamin D in the skin for most of the year. It is therefore unlikely that the ...
... Europeans. “Using ancient DNA and computer simulations, we show that strong natural selection has acted on lactase persistence in Iberia over the last 7,000 years. Sunlight in Iberia is sufficient to allow the synthesis of vitamin D in the skin for most of the year. It is therefore unlikely that the ...
Review of David Buller`s Adapting Minds
... antecedent (if not-p then not-q) or affirming the consequence (if q then p). But people are systematically better at social presentations of the tasks. And the improvement is independent of familiarity; performance improves even if the conditional mentions nonexistent social rules in purely imaginar ...
... antecedent (if not-p then not-q) or affirming the consequence (if q then p). But people are systematically better at social presentations of the tasks. And the improvement is independent of familiarity; performance improves even if the conditional mentions nonexistent social rules in purely imaginar ...
EVOLUTION
... Solving the Mystery of the Neanderthals Other Applications of DNA Analysis can be found at http://www.dnai.org Choose Applications, then Human Origins ...
... Solving the Mystery of the Neanderthals Other Applications of DNA Analysis can be found at http://www.dnai.org Choose Applications, then Human Origins ...
The Human Species
... At first he thought it was an “upright ape” but later changed because of human similarities Remains have been found in China (called Peking), Tanzania and Algeria Fair sized brain about capacity 750 - 1225 cm3 This species learned to use fire for warmth, how to co-operate with others to hunt ...
... At first he thought it was an “upright ape” but later changed because of human similarities Remains have been found in China (called Peking), Tanzania and Algeria Fair sized brain about capacity 750 - 1225 cm3 This species learned to use fire for warmth, how to co-operate with others to hunt ...
Chapter 23: How Humans Evolved
... In 1938, a second, stockier kind of Australopithecus was unearthed in South Africa. Called A. robustus, it had massive teeth and jaws. In 1959, in East Africa, Mary Leakey discovered a third kind of Australopithecus—A. boisei (after Charles Boise, an American-born businessman who contributed to the ...
... In 1938, a second, stockier kind of Australopithecus was unearthed in South Africa. Called A. robustus, it had massive teeth and jaws. In 1959, in East Africa, Mary Leakey discovered a third kind of Australopithecus—A. boisei (after Charles Boise, an American-born businessman who contributed to the ...
Pop Anthropology, With Little Anthropology or Pop
... evolution to what can be found in brains. The result, perhaps predictably, is ultimately as unsatisfying as a plate of bean sprouts. Much of the generalizing is questionable, and much of the evolution is by assertion. Allen begins, for example, by asking rhetorically why we love crispy food (the exp ...
... evolution to what can be found in brains. The result, perhaps predictably, is ultimately as unsatisfying as a plate of bean sprouts. Much of the generalizing is questionable, and much of the evolution is by assertion. Allen begins, for example, by asking rhetorically why we love crispy food (the exp ...
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... Europe had been separate since at least the Middle Pleistocene, and that some Middle Pleistocene fossils represented a pre-sapiens form. This pre-sapiens theory precluded the Neandertals from human ancestry and focused on European evidence, though in abstract the theory did not require that the pre- ...
... Europe had been separate since at least the Middle Pleistocene, and that some Middle Pleistocene fossils represented a pre-sapiens form. This pre-sapiens theory precluded the Neandertals from human ancestry and focused on European evidence, though in abstract the theory did not require that the pre- ...
Origin of Man
... TODAY’S OBJECTIVES Differentiate different ideas of man’s origin Why was Homo erectus so successful as an early hominid? Be able to briefly trace the cultural development of: • tools, fire, clothing, shelter, art ...
... TODAY’S OBJECTIVES Differentiate different ideas of man’s origin Why was Homo erectus so successful as an early hominid? Be able to briefly trace the cultural development of: • tools, fire, clothing, shelter, art ...
Genes, Language, Cognition, and Culture: Towards Productive Inquiry
... knock-out mice, many of which already exist, or in song-learning birds). In the coming individual genome era, hypotheses can be tested using the genetic variability that already exists among living humans today (with six billion humans and only 20 thousand genes, most mutations compatible with life ...
... knock-out mice, many of which already exist, or in song-learning birds). In the coming individual genome era, hypotheses can be tested using the genetic variability that already exists among living humans today (with six billion humans and only 20 thousand genes, most mutations compatible with life ...
A new synthesis: Resituating approaches to the evolution of human
... In the quest to understand human behaviour, the behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems are obviously of great interest to us. This possibility that ‘instruction’, the passing of non-genetic information or structure across generations, can influence evolutionary patterns, changes the way we can ...
... In the quest to understand human behaviour, the behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems are obviously of great interest to us. This possibility that ‘instruction’, the passing of non-genetic information or structure across generations, can influence evolutionary patterns, changes the way we can ...
Jessica L. Joganic
... Joganic JL, Pontzer H, Verrelli BC. The hungry brain: an assessment of liver size correlation with brain size as it relates to energy storage trade-offs across primate evolution. Symposium: Nonhominin primate evolution, AAPA meetings. Joganic JL, Perry GH, Cunningham AJ, Dominy NJ, Verrelli BC. Mole ...
... Joganic JL, Pontzer H, Verrelli BC. The hungry brain: an assessment of liver size correlation with brain size as it relates to energy storage trade-offs across primate evolution. Symposium: Nonhominin primate evolution, AAPA meetings. Joganic JL, Perry GH, Cunningham AJ, Dominy NJ, Verrelli BC. Mole ...
Ecological dominance and the final sprint in hominid evolution
... costs less energy but more intelligence. A runaway selection for mental proficiency and complexity arises. -Because dominant males were increasingly dependent on cooperation with other males, they had to renounce their reproductive monopolies. "Reproductive opportunity leveling" enabled big groups t ...
... costs less energy but more intelligence. A runaway selection for mental proficiency and complexity arises. -Because dominant males were increasingly dependent on cooperation with other males, they had to renounce their reproductive monopolies. "Reproductive opportunity leveling" enabled big groups t ...
THE DOMESTICATION OF HUMANS
... to 100 ka (Arensburg 2002). Moreover, Levantine Robusts (Tabun, Kebara, Amud) differ significantly in their skeletal morphology from the Neanderthals of Europe and it has been questioned whether they should be described as Neanderthals. In Europe, two perceived cultural traditions, the Châtelperroni ...
... to 100 ka (Arensburg 2002). Moreover, Levantine Robusts (Tabun, Kebara, Amud) differ significantly in their skeletal morphology from the Neanderthals of Europe and it has been questioned whether they should be described as Neanderthals. In Europe, two perceived cultural traditions, the Châtelperroni ...
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... b) genetic mutation. c) diffusion. d) maladaptation. e) social betterment. ...
... b) genetic mutation. c) diffusion. d) maladaptation. e) social betterment. ...
Divergence, demography and gene loss along the human lineage
... locus since the MRCA tg þ t years ago. The value of k differs from locus to locus and is governed by the probability laws for the coalescence time t and the stochastic nature of accumulating nucleotide substitutions in a gene lineage. For a given set of DNA sequence data for a pair of species, we ha ...
... locus since the MRCA tg þ t years ago. The value of k differs from locus to locus and is governed by the probability laws for the coalescence time t and the stochastic nature of accumulating nucleotide substitutions in a gene lineage. For a given set of DNA sequence data for a pair of species, we ha ...
Cross-Cultural Universals and Variations
... physically precocial. Rather than investing in the development of locomotion, defense, and food acquisition systems that function early in ontogeny, the infant can work instead toward building a more effective adult phenotype. The brain continues rapid growth, and the corresponding cognitive compete ...
... physically precocial. Rather than investing in the development of locomotion, defense, and food acquisition systems that function early in ontogeny, the infant can work instead toward building a more effective adult phenotype. The brain continues rapid growth, and the corresponding cognitive compete ...
Before the Dawn (book)
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors is a non-fiction book by Nicholas Wade, a science reporter for The New York Times. It was published in 2006 by the Penguin Group. By drawing upon research on the human genome, the book attempts to piece together what Wade calls ""two vanished periods"": the five million years of human evolution from the development of bipedalism leading up to behavioural modernity around 50,000 years ago, and the 45,000 subsequent years of prehistory.Wade asserts that there is a clear continuity from the earlier apes of five million years ago to the anatomically modern humans who diverged from them, citing the genetic and social similarities between humans and chimpanzees. He attributes the divergence of the two species from a common ancestor to a change in their ecological niche; the ancestors of chimpanzees remained in the forests of equatorial Africa, whereas the ancestors of humans moved to open woodland and were exposed to different evolutionary pressures. Although Wade posits that much of human evolution can be attributed to the physical environment, he also believes that one of the major forces shaping evolution has been the nature of human society itself.After humans migrated out of their ancestral environment of eastern Africa, they were exposed to new climates and challenges. Thus, Wade argues, human evolution did not end with behavioural modernity, but continued to be shaped by the different environments and lifestyles of each continent. While many adaptations happened in parallel across human populations, Wade believes that genetic isolation – either because of geography or hostile tribalism – also facilitated a degree of independent evolution, leading to genetic and cultural differentiation from the ancestral population and giving rise to different human races and languages.The book received generally positive reviews, but some criticised the use of the term ""race"" and the implications of differences between them. In 2007, it won the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers.