Not exact matches
Evolution is just an
human abstraction to attempt understanding some real
phenomena, following an ideological determination to do it
in purely materialist and mechanicist terms.
In the last fifty thousand years, after twenty billion years of evolution in the cosmos and four billion years of evolution on Earth, the evolutionary beat brought forth the remarkable phenomena of human mind and consciousnes
In the last fifty thousand years, after twenty billion years of
evolution in the cosmos and four billion years of evolution on Earth, the evolutionary beat brought forth the remarkable phenomena of human mind and consciousnes
in the cosmos and four billion years of
evolution on Earth, the evolutionary beat brought forth the remarkable
phenomena of
human mind and consciousness.
This transformed
human community forms a living organism, a biological
phenomenon which we conceive to be the next stage
in the emergent
evolution of the world, and the incarnation of the divine Word.
If, as we have shown, the social
phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of
human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads
in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of
Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life
in our hearts, and
in such a way as to counteract those elements
in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.
We have discussed cultural
evolution in human societies as an emergent
phenomenon of biological
evolution.
The
phenomenon, known as cumulative cultural
evolution, was considered «arguably unique to
humans,» says Dora Biro, a behavioral biologist at the University of Oxford
in the United Kingdom.
And both
humans and animals direct their
evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a
phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected
in the modern synthesis.
This baby talk, or «motherese,» is widely considered to be a universal feature of
human language, but now scientists report that a similar
phenomenon might exist
in other species — a finding that could help explain baby talk's
evolution.