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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
The astonishing new discovery that could change everything . . . Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime – a perfectly fossilized … Continue reading
Evolution – The Human Story
How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth, capable of sending spaceships to the Moon? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The … Continue reading
Culture, Genes, and the Human Revolution
Genetic evolution may have been driven by cultural innovations during the emergence of modern humans. State-of-the-art DNA sequencing is providing ever more detailed insights into the genomes of humans, extant apes, and even extinct hominins , offering unprecedented opportunities to … Continue reading
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Human Thinking as Cooperation
Human cognition and thinking are much more complex than the cognition and thinking of other primates. Human social interaction and organization are much more complex than the social interaction and organization of other primates as well. It is highly unlikely, … Continue reading
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Leisure, the Basis of Culture: Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.” Today, in … Continue reading
The Future of Human Swarming and Collective Intelligence
Whether it’s the birds and the bees, the fish, or even slime molds, it goes back to all social creatures that use their collective intelligence to form real-time synchronous systems. We have many names for these natural assemblages, including flocks, … Continue reading
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Toward a Biology of Collectivism: Reducing the East West Divide to Its Physical and Physiological Substrates
The signs of mating competition are written into the physiology of the human male, but they are not written equally into the physiology of all racial groupings of human males. It seems that Asian males are different, different in that … Continue reading
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Making Present – Autopoiesis as Human Production
In Niklas Luhmann’s social theory, autopoiesis is the repeated work of human self-construction through which social and cultural forms are maintained against a background of their continuous dissolution and disappearance. Autopoiesis in this sense is the production and reproduction of … Continue reading
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How Culture makes Us Human: on the Formation of Human Societes
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an … Continue reading
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Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
It is generally recognized that life is becoming more complex. This article analyzes the human social environment using the “complexity profile,” a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system. The analysis is used to justify the qualitative … Continue reading
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