Originally posted on use of knowledge:
People take the current level technological innovation as a given. It’s not. We are as prosperous and rich as we are today because of specific habits, customs and institutions that have evolved over generations. People often imagine that humanity is on a linear progression of innovation. That no matter what…
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Lower Testosterone Levels In Early Humans May Have Led To Modern Civilized Human Societies
Originally posted on Human:theManual:
? Researchers form Duke have revealed that during human evolution, a lowering of testosterone led to the development of cooperation and civilization. Source: http://www.designntrend.com/
Homo Sapiens Fossils Found in China Challenge Out-of-Africa Theory
Originally posted on ΡΟ Π ΤΡ Ο Ν:
Human Exodus May Have Reached China 100,000 Years Ago Last month, Christopher Bae of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Wei Wang of the Guangxi Museum of Nationalities in Nanning, China, and their colleagues announced the discovery of two teeth from the Luna cave in China’s Guangxi Zhuang region, which testing suggests…
Handy: checklist of common misconceptions about evolution in both popular media and school textbooks
This is an excellent paper, moreover, a much needed paper. Not only does it give a concise introduction to the main issues regarding the science of evolution, it also offers a balanced, non-conflictual perspective on the relation between science and religion. Just one quote: “All science is non-theistic, by which is meant that it does […]
Myth-busting in Science and Religion
Popular opinion has it that science and religion are in conflict, as they always have been and as they always will be. That is of course false, as historical research as shown: see for example this and this article (JSTOR-links, create a free account to acces the articles online – yes, for free!), or this […]
10 Life Lessons From Disney Animated Films
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution MTV.com (blog) 10 Manly Life Lessons From Disney Animated Films [Memes] MTV.com (blog) Nobody can tell you how to live your life. No one, that is, except for Walt Disney. That guy knew some serious sh*t. Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: Ok, so these might not be the most profound life […]
Cooperation Against Racism
– Tom Uytterhoeven – Although I am not a scientist, I think this is a great experiment. It shows us what mechanisms lie beneath ugly features of human social living, like racism and gender discrimination. Moreover, it shows us how to decrease the prevalence of these features, at least in the case of racism. Let […]
Music Timeline: Cultural Resource or Ad for Google Play?
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Google’s Music Timeline is one of the best visualizations of our cultural soundtrack’s evolution over the past 60 yrs http://t.co/u6PQiT09sL Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: "Our cultural soundtrack", the PR-talk says. And that’s true: music can really convey the spirit of a certain period. But when you check out this timeline, […]
Short reflection on “The mystery of the human intelligence explosion – io9”
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution The mystery of the human intelligence explosion io9 Perhaps one of the biggest mysteries in our evolution is how humans developed symbolic culture, a very general catch-all term that includes things like art, language, personal adornment, weapons,… Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: This is fascinating. To imagine how our species slowly […]
One Cartoon, Two Myths Busted: on Evolution and the Brain
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution The evolution of workers. It’s right brainer time! http://t.co/vchMnFSXyx Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: There are many cartoons on evolution out there, most of them building on the same theme: a row of men(!) depicting some kind of progress, ending in a caricature of today’s life. You might have seen the […]
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