Sentences with phrase «with cultural evolution»

Another form of this dualism is the commonly made claim that the evolutionary process continues on the human level with cultural evolution, which is totally distinct from biological evolution.

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The Cultural Dimension As culture develops, so too will religion in order that it may answer more adequately the basic problems of human life and to further deepen the synthesis of scientific knowledge with religious knowledge - the principle of evolution is written into the nature of religion, as in all life.
Victory in the creation - evolution dispute therefore belongs to the party with the cultural authority to establish the ground rules that govern the discourse.
(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion
Ancient, unaltered primal urges overlapping with high - velocity intellectual and cultural evolution.
I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.
I have slightly improved the thrust of this quotation: Whitehead actually (somewhat embarrassingly) claims that the «struggle for existence gives no hint why there should be cities» even though Hobbes» social theory provides just such an account, illustrating that cultural change and even transformation per se has necessarily little to do with the issue of evolution.
3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.
For instance, Habermas pays more explicit attention to economic development and to the state, credits the social sciences with a more prominent role in cultural evolution, and stresses secular procedures as elements of legitimation rather than emphasizing sacred or religious values.
In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures.
This enables the evolution of a second powerful form of inheritance to go with genes: the passing of cultural knowledge down generations.
Cultural evolution, especially since humans began farming, has transformed how our bodies interact with the environment.
What happens next is «a question for our values, not science», says Fine, arguing for a world where cultural and gender norms sit with evolution, genetics and hormones to take account of all the influences.
Cultural and genetic evolution in mountain white - crowned sparrows: song dialects are associated with population structure.
«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential cultural and biological interactions between these two human groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»
And while the story is one that I am very, very familiar with, it was wonderful to merge a meangingul gift from a new friend to a cultural connection with my family's heritage, and, to the evolution of my species.
First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.
Resonating with some of the cultural concerns of the late 1960's when the film was made, Planet of the Apes sets up the classic battle of evolution verses religion, which may prove offensive to some (although the story's construct leaves room to argue that faith and science are not as different as the opinions of those who interrupt them).
by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.
The evolution of the iPad has created more than just a learning curve, but a cultural shift in the way we access information and connect with the outside world.
With a knack for finding the humor in the quirks of the American cultural landscape, Hughes takes us on a tour from the Mall of America in Minneapolis to what he calls the «maul» of America - Custer's last stand - stopping at road - sides and discoursing on sandwiches, the shape of cowboy hats, the evolution of barn roofs, the 28.99 wording of jokes, the wearing of moustaches, and, of course, the telling features from tepees of different tribes.
The tailored educational and nature outings could include the island's evolution, medicinal and cultural plants (with sampling of fruit and other edibles), language, history, legends, and hidden temples and sacred sites.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of groundbreaking alternative art and culture magazine Giant Robot, OMCA features the major exhibition, SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot featuring works by 15 contemporary artists who have been a part of the magazine's social and cultural evolution.
His vision as a sculptor is based on observation and experience both in terms of ideas; drawn upon his early scientific background and his extensive knowledge of the history of cultural evolution, together with his visual and tactile ability to respond to the forms in his sculptures while in the process of making them.
This alleged «cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.
If you had taken the trouble to read the all the post, you would see that the mechanisms of how innate skepticism detects collective deception, or incorrectly triggers on characteristics that are not indicative of collective deception, are completely independent of what the topics at issue are (i.e. work the same for any), and indeed these detection mechanisms are framed using principles that themselves stem from evolution / cultural evolution (so not from contested topic domains such as CC etc. that I or anyone else agrees or disagrees with).
The Vatican declares that evolution by natural selection is not incompatible with its teachings and that Intelligent Design is a «cultural phenomenon» rather than a scientific or theological one.
Andy == > It seems that churches and religion are not subjects with which you have a lot of first hand / hands on experience — more like something you have always «studied about» from some perspective outside of the field itself — viewed always through the lens of cultural psychology or cultural evolution.
Perhaps the fire frequency was a function of population density, cultural practices innovations, or other human - based factors that had nothing to do with temperature, such as war, peace, displacement, entrenchment, food preference shifts, food availability changes, evolution in customs, advances in ecological knowledge, population growth, etc..
By necessity, telecommunications must keep up with evolution, be it cultural or technological, and Dan presented to us the ways in which he has pioneered change at BT during his time there.
Accordingly, the flux of writing has grown exponentially, with resulting impact on cultural evolution.
Together with the societies» cultural, economic and general world view, related evolution, including mass migration, not only shows us that the associated crime was unavoidable, but also the ways of the fleeting justice system; there is a notable progression: crime has become cross border.
Contrary to human rights standards which proscribe discrimination and require protection of rights of indigenous peoples to practise and revitalise their cultural traditions [62], the majority's approach apparently dictates a historical search for an actual chain of evolution, under a range of destructive outside influences, to establish a link with «tradition» which may be of little significance to a community, whilst ignoring genuine assertions, or interpretations, of traditional laws and customs by the community itself.
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