Sentences with phrase «cultural knowledge down»

This enables the evolution of a second powerful form of inheritance to go with genes: the passing of cultural knowledge down generations.

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Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

In my view the curriculum matters because there is real cultural knowledge, handed down by a process of natural selection.

Whether describing a «riot» of grasshoppers as «a bristling carpet of wings and legs,» explaining why insects often show up in hallucinations or tracking creepy - crawly cultural attitudes, Lockwood weaves science, history and the sheer joy of sharing knowledge into a book that's hard to put down.

There was Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist of technology use from the University of California, Irvine, talking about breaking down «authoritarian forms of knowledge.»

When it famously burned down, its destruction has become a symbol for the loss of cultural knowledge.

The Tribunal acknowledged that Mr. Monture's evidence was informed by the «accumulated knowledge of the Onkwehonwe people as traditionally passed down through the generations, as well as cultural values that emphasize the importance of respecting the natural environment.»