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Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?
If
Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?
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They only found 20 missing links between
modern human and ancient ape, but heck, you said it,
so it must
be right.
There
's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real,
human, and symbolic,
being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the
modern world and
modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and
so forth and
so on.
Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the
modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of
human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should
be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation,
so as to ensure that these achievements
are not undone....
While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic
human existence culminates in faith — could
be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer
be so at a time when the death of God has become
so fully incarnate in the
modern consciousness.
The real content of many
so - called
modern difficulties
are as old as the eternal hills, as old as
human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which
was uttered by the first man and has
been re-echoed since down the centuries.
Just as Karol Wojtyla undertook a phenomenologically saturated analysis of
modern human experience,
so must we try to dig deep for an understanding of what
is happening under the surface of the events of our own time.
So a magical all - powerful
being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a
modern day man and woman on the earth from whom all
humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.
The
modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of
human personality — especially in respect to qualities that
are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.
If
so, then
human minds, created in the image and likeness of God, should
be able to understand the world in which we find ourselves; much of the skepticism of
modern society needs then to
be rethought by Christians.
There may
be no other set of
human beings so in need of reassurance about the love of God in the
modern world.
There
is as yet no power able to deal with the major structural changes that
are required for justice in the world,
so that all persons may have what they need for decent
human existence, existence that the
modern world has ample means to provide.
It would
be to do for the
modern era what Aristotle succeeded in doing for an earlier age — it would
be to find a way, given the
modern world's understanding of nature, to do justice to
human being as a part of nature
so understood.
His aim
is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of
modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in
human affairs will
be increased because men
are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.
Yet from all sides today
modern knowledge of the
human creature and his world
is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of
human existence, to which, in
so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.
To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of
modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that
humans came into existence in various places at differing times (
so - called «Polyphyletism»)
is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there
was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.
We should, therefore, not
be under the illusion that when anatomically
modern human beings emerged 100,000 or
so years ago, after millions of years of evolutionary change, they ceased to
be influenced significantly by their evolutionary past.
But no observant Jew, either in antiquity or
modern times, has ever claimed that eating pork
is an evil in and of itself or that resting on the Sabbath
is so inherently good that it
is enjoined on the whole
human race.
Deep ecologists have pressed the question of why civilized
human beings, and especially those in the
modern West, have become
so alienated from nature.
A second reason that
humans, especially
modern ones, have done
so much damage
is that they have not understood that their very
being is constituted by relations that ultimately connect them to everything in the universe.
For the
modern problem really lies in the fact that
so many Enlightenment thinkers relied on a concept of «natural» that
was anything but a reflection of
human nature as it actually exists.
It
is not hatred, at least from me,
so much as it
is frustration that we can not as
modern, rational
humans leave this silly religious nonsense behind us.
As with social regimentation and behavioristic concepts of
human nature,
so too with the denial of immortality, what seems to many people a
modern conclusion
was, in fact, the primitive beginning.
What results from the foregoing
is that, confronted by this technico - social embrace of the
human mass,
modern man, in
so far as he has any clear idea of what
is happening, tends to take fright as though at an impending disaster.
And then there
were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the
human person
was the battleground on which «the Church in the
modern world»
was contesting with various dangerous forces for the
human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that
human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must
be free if it
is to
be true, because the God of the Bible wants to
be adored by people who freely choose to do
so.
Though the problem
is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular society that it
is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the
modern church which
is confronted with unusual evidences of misery in the life of
human communities and of weakness within itself.
Modern day scholars
were not around to hear Jesus speaking and
so it
is a question as to whether you believe in the power of God to convey his story through
human conduits (writers and translators of the Bible).
Until recently, half of the
human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why
are the genetic alleles that
are most frequently associated with depression
so common in the
modern gene pool?
So, by that, compounded with problems such as Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the observer's effect, and the like — the
modern day
human lacks sufficient qualification to ascertain a good part of their knowledge as
being absolute.
Indeed, I
am shocked to the core to note that the hybridization of the wheat by
human intervention has caused the wheat to
be so deconstructed that the property of the
modern wheat actually caused more harm than good to the
human body.
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Note that this isn't some metric I
'm making up out of whole cloth; I think back in 2007 or
so the New York Times ran a series of articles on class differences in
modern America, and they said that one of the best indicators of someone's economic class
is whether they have goods and services that took a lot of labor to make, or whether their daily life doesn't command a lot of
human resources.
Thus, people across the board would start waking up; just as Holocaust memorial day
was held earlier this week,
so we would have a day to raise awareness of slavery,
modern - day slavery and
human trafficking.
Stringer, of the British Natural History Museum,
is best known as a founding theorist of the
so - called «out of Africa» theory, which contends that
modern humans evolved in Africa before radiating around the globe.
The South African archaeological record
is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for
modern behavior in early
humans.
Because if some genius Neandertal invents a new kind of hand axe — and they used the same kind for
so long, for tens and tens [of] thousands of years — but if somebody in the cave invents a new one, it
's not going to spread beyond that cave probably, it might not even spread that much within the cave; it
's [likely] to die with him; whereas the
modern humans have this thing of watching each other and teaching other and spreading things among themselves among one another,
so that 10,000 or
so --[it] might have
been a few more, I know that the people
are not too clear about that might — there might only have
been 10,000 Neandertals all over Europe.
Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic
humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early
moderns and can
be counted among our ancestors — the
so - called multiregional evolution theory of
modern human origins.
If
so, it would mean that, rather than
being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit
was just a
modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which
is what critics have argued all along.
So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from no
So, but it does project into the future, and it
's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned
was that people have this ability,
modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self
so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from no
so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you
are in your head now also enables me to think where I will
be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.
A computer - assisted proof
is so big it may never
be checked by a
human being — raising questions about the nature of
modern mathematics
In
modern society we
are so submerged in words — spoken, written, signed, and texted — that they seem inseparable from
human identity.
This
was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did
was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data,
so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of
modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which
are much older, you know.
So, given three possible explanations for what the Flores hominid
is, and those three possibilities
are that, you know, a dwarfed species descended from Homo erectus or an Australopithecine or a microcephalic
modern human, he says that the most parsimonious diagnosis
is the one that requires the fewest assumptions — would
be microcephaly.
Today this corner of the Arabian Peninsular, part of
modern Oman,
is so devoid of
human life that it
is known as the Empty Quarter.
Even ordinary studies of
human physiology, for example, suggest that
humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns
modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.
If
so, and if, as the team's estimates suggest, the variant became established in the
human population during the last 200,000 years of
human history — roughly the time at which anatomically
modern humans arose — the gift of gab may have
been a driving force in their expansion.
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So it
is a real exercise to get across, and the magnitude of that
is illustrated by the fact that, before anatomically
modern humans made the leap, no large - bodied animal ever got all the way across.»
The study concludes that the archaeological layers at the site
are so mixed up that ornaments and tools once attributed to Neandertals could actually
be the work of
modern humans, who lived in the same cave at a later date.
Triple - negative cancers
are so called because they do not express receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, nor for HER2 (
human epidermal growth factor 2), and hence patients with these cancers
are not candidates for treatment with
modern hormonal therapies or the highly effective HER2 - targeted drug Herceptin (trastuzumab).