Adapting Minds and Evolutionary Psychology Herbert Gintis
... of environmental conditions some behaviors will be virtually universally exhibited and others will be extremely rare, while behaviors to which we are not predisposed will be exhibited either not at all, or only in a very restricted set of environmental circumstances. Third, since biological fitness ...
... of environmental conditions some behaviors will be virtually universally exhibited and others will be extremely rare, while behaviors to which we are not predisposed will be exhibited either not at all, or only in a very restricted set of environmental circumstances. Third, since biological fitness ...
Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens
... stantial relative changes occurred over an extended time span and a significant number of speciation events. There was a marked increase in absolute brain size by the Early Pleistocene and again in the Middle Pleistocene, with a long interval of perhaps 1 Myr during which brain size did not change s ...
... stantial relative changes occurred over an extended time span and a significant number of speciation events. There was a marked increase in absolute brain size by the Early Pleistocene and again in the Middle Pleistocene, with a long interval of perhaps 1 Myr during which brain size did not change s ...
Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. What is Human Ecology? Chapter 2
... live together in large numbers and cooperate extensively. Biologists call these species ultra-social. Many of the more social of the social insects have hundreds of thousands of individuals each the colony, all cooperating, dividing tasks, and the like. Humans are also counted among the ultra-social ...
... live together in large numbers and cooperate extensively. Biologists call these species ultra-social. Many of the more social of the social insects have hundreds of thousands of individuals each the colony, all cooperating, dividing tasks, and the like. Humans are also counted among the ultra-social ...
martin heidegger and paul kurtz on humanism
... living the meaning of one’s life. This would be a self-to-be-with-others. The moral principles Kurtz stands for focus on the general guidelines for how we ought to act toward one another. The ethical thought is attentive to the human good. Compassionate feeling and reason are not in opposition but i ...
... living the meaning of one’s life. This would be a self-to-be-with-others. The moral principles Kurtz stands for focus on the general guidelines for how we ought to act toward one another. The ethical thought is attentive to the human good. Compassionate feeling and reason are not in opposition but i ...
Human Nature, Social Theory and the Problem of Institutional Design
... a vast repository of research and writing that explores, or at least anticipates, a synthesis between a model of the self and a model of society. But instead of finding a tendency towards the natural integration of these inquiries, compartmentalisation persists, and obstacles are and have been place ...
... a vast repository of research and writing that explores, or at least anticipates, a synthesis between a model of the self and a model of society. But instead of finding a tendency towards the natural integration of these inquiries, compartmentalisation persists, and obstacles are and have been place ...
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction to Anthropology
... Agassiz claims that the earth may be divided into zoological provinces, each encompassing a range of law and sea environments. The inhabitants of each province are uniquely suited to live there and can't naturally survive outside of it. - Principal races of men are distributed amongst the zoological ...
... Agassiz claims that the earth may be divided into zoological provinces, each encompassing a range of law and sea environments. The inhabitants of each province are uniquely suited to live there and can't naturally survive outside of it. - Principal races of men are distributed amongst the zoological ...
View/Open
... and others had argued through much of the 20th century that hunting, killing, and extreme aggressive behaviors were biological traits inherited from our earliest hominid hunting ancestors, many anthropologists still believed that patterns of aggression ...
... and others had argued through much of the 20th century that hunting, killing, and extreme aggressive behaviors were biological traits inherited from our earliest hominid hunting ancestors, many anthropologists still believed that patterns of aggression ...
Archetypes 101: An Introduction
... What is an Archetype? An original model on which something is patterned or based (prototype) ...
... What is an Archetype? An original model on which something is patterned or based (prototype) ...
Chapter 4 - A Science of Human Nature?
... which had seen the birth of American cultural anthropology were once more reconstituted in their original form made more urgent by the memories of Nazi atrocities. As a result, socio-biology became something horrible for many cultural and social anthropologists, something against which they felt it ...
... which had seen the birth of American cultural anthropology were once more reconstituted in their original form made more urgent by the memories of Nazi atrocities. As a result, socio-biology became something horrible for many cultural and social anthropologists, something against which they felt it ...
Chapter II Roots of Ecocriticism The study of literature
... not spurning the natural sciences but using their ideas to sustain viable readings‖ (Glotfelty and Fromm 78). Thus the working definition of literary ecocriticism is the analysis of literature‘s expression of humanity‘s place on Earth, our oikos or home. This wholly includes the cultural aspect thro ...
... not spurning the natural sciences but using their ideas to sustain viable readings‖ (Glotfelty and Fromm 78). Thus the working definition of literary ecocriticism is the analysis of literature‘s expression of humanity‘s place on Earth, our oikos or home. This wholly includes the cultural aspect thro ...
Social Constructions of the Environment
... Because environment is an already ambivalent, socio-natural term, as alluded to above, those who consider the social construction of the environment tend to focus on nature, a term which apparently connotes something real, authentic, and, in terms of the environment, singularly identifiable as non- ...
... Because environment is an already ambivalent, socio-natural term, as alluded to above, those who consider the social construction of the environment tend to focus on nature, a term which apparently connotes something real, authentic, and, in terms of the environment, singularly identifiable as non- ...
Text of Professor Maurice Bloch's text: Where did anthropology Go? Or The need for "Human Nature"
... unexamined and simple notion of human nature which it was the purpose of the subject to flesh out. The period about which I have been talking may be referred to as that of the founders of anthropology. It produced an ordered image of the history of mankind and of cultural and social variation. It is ...
... unexamined and simple notion of human nature which it was the purpose of the subject to flesh out. The period about which I have been talking may be referred to as that of the founders of anthropology. It produced an ordered image of the history of mankind and of cultural and social variation. It is ...
Where did anthropology go?: or the need for `human nature`
... anywhere, anybody and in any order, there are no laws of history. In other words, because humans can, unlike other animals, transmit acquired characteristics across and within generations, the history of culture becomes an entangled, disordered, extraordinarily complex, mess, quite unlike the ordere ...
... anywhere, anybody and in any order, there are no laws of history. In other words, because humans can, unlike other animals, transmit acquired characteristics across and within generations, the history of culture becomes an entangled, disordered, extraordinarily complex, mess, quite unlike the ordere ...
Forensic Taphonomy A synopsis – by Vi Shaffer Overall Definition
... modification of osteological assemblages, from a site formation perspective; focusing on reconstructing the life history of a fossil from the time of death to the time of recovery – including all aspects of the passage of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere. These broad definitions presu ...
... modification of osteological assemblages, from a site formation perspective; focusing on reconstructing the life history of a fossil from the time of death to the time of recovery – including all aspects of the passage of organisms from the biosphere to the lithosphere. These broad definitions presu ...
Tunnel vision - Engaging with the world – Eriksen`s site
... Geertz departs from standard evolutionist accounts by proclaiming that ‘[t]o take the giant step away from the uniformitarian view of human nature is, so far as the study of man is concerned, to leave the Garden [of Eden]’ (Geertz 1973a: 36). He then moves on to describe, and dismiss, what he calls ...
... Geertz departs from standard evolutionist accounts by proclaiming that ‘[t]o take the giant step away from the uniformitarian view of human nature is, so far as the study of man is concerned, to leave the Garden [of Eden]’ (Geertz 1973a: 36). He then moves on to describe, and dismiss, what he calls ...
Paul Ziolo - the World
... Liverpool L69 7ZA ABSTRACT Nanotechnology and nanoscience form the substrate of an integrated network of innovations that constitute the next long-wave cycle in economics. It has often been said that more than any previous cycle, this coming wave may challenge not only social and political structure ...
... Liverpool L69 7ZA ABSTRACT Nanotechnology and nanoscience form the substrate of an integrated network of innovations that constitute the next long-wave cycle in economics. It has often been said that more than any previous cycle, this coming wave may challenge not only social and political structure ...
Evolutionary theory, human uniqueness and the image of God
... In the first place, this may be seen to pertain to the animals. The recent rise of cultural and political movements in the West committed to the defence of ‘animal rights’ and/or the liberation of animals shows that this suggestion is not as outrageous as it would have been deemed in the past. So le ...
... In the first place, this may be seen to pertain to the animals. The recent rise of cultural and political movements in the West committed to the defence of ‘animal rights’ and/or the liberation of animals shows that this suggestion is not as outrageous as it would have been deemed in the past. So le ...
Ancient Wisdom and Civilization
... interpretations of human experience and human nature. Collective wisdom traditions function in this manner by providing an interpretation of what it means to be human and what thoughts, skills, and actions are required to live a successful human life at the most general level of analysis. Collective ...
... interpretations of human experience and human nature. Collective wisdom traditions function in this manner by providing an interpretation of what it means to be human and what thoughts, skills, and actions are required to live a successful human life at the most general level of analysis. Collective ...
EXCERPTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF VIKTOR
... suffering upon himself he may yet realize values. Thus, life has a meaning to the last breath. For the possibility of realizing values by the very attitude with which we face our unchangeable suffering - this possibility exists to the very last moment. I call such values attitudinal values. (p xix) ...
... suffering upon himself he may yet realize values. Thus, life has a meaning to the last breath. For the possibility of realizing values by the very attitude with which we face our unchangeable suffering - this possibility exists to the very last moment. I call such values attitudinal values. (p xix) ...
General introduction: The critique of culture and the plurality of
... one’s argument, as structural, symbolical, materialist and socio-biological studies in each their way have done, we doubt it is possible to simply discard the opposition. The fact that this opposition has persevered despite the long history of critique suggests that the critique itself may be as muc ...
... one’s argument, as structural, symbolical, materialist and socio-biological studies in each their way have done, we doubt it is possible to simply discard the opposition. The fact that this opposition has persevered despite the long history of critique suggests that the critique itself may be as muc ...
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
... seeks to demonstrate how aspects of cultures are linked, how they affect one another; seeks to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a multifaceted approach to the study of human behavior. ...
... seeks to demonstrate how aspects of cultures are linked, how they affect one another; seeks to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a multifaceted approach to the study of human behavior. ...
1 What makes humans special? - Assets
... body weight began a remarkable journey. The initial part of that journey didn’t involve much by today’s standards, merely the ability to scavenge and possibly chase-hunt the creatures of the sub-Saharan African savannahs, to make some rather modest stone-flaked tools for that purpose, and eventually ...
... body weight began a remarkable journey. The initial part of that journey didn’t involve much by today’s standards, merely the ability to scavenge and possibly chase-hunt the creatures of the sub-Saharan African savannahs, to make some rather modest stone-flaked tools for that purpose, and eventually ...
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... study of a single population, race, "tribe," class, or nation. General anthropology insists first and foremost that conclusions based upon the study of one particular human group or civilization be checked against the evidence of other groups or civilizations under both similar and different condit ...
... study of a single population, race, "tribe," class, or nation. General anthropology insists first and foremost that conclusions based upon the study of one particular human group or civilization be checked against the evidence of other groups or civilizations under both similar and different condit ...