The Past and Future Distribution of Homo Sapiens and his Activities in Great Britain

1972 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
J.K. PAGE
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
The Past

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Pacchioni
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Radical Transformation

About 10,000 years ago, at the beginning of the agriculturalrevolution, on the whole earth lived between 5 and 8 million hunter-gatherers, all belonging to the Homo sapiens species. Five thousand years later, freed from the primary needs for survival, some belonging to that species enjoyed the privilege of devoting themselves to philosophical speculation and the search for transcendental truths. It was only in the past two hundred years, however, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, that reaping nature’s secrets and answering fundamental questions posed by the Universe have become for many full-time activities, on the way to becoming a real profession. Today the number of scientists across the globe has reached and exceeded 10 million, that is, more than the whole human race 10,000 years ago. If growth continues at the current rate, in 2050 we will have 35 million people committed full-time to scientific research. With what consequences, it remains to be understood. For almost forty years I myself have been concerned with science in a continuing, direct, and passionate way. Today I perceive, along with many colleagues, especially of my generation, that things are evolving and have changed deeply, in ways unimaginable until a few years ago and, in some respects, not without danger. What has happened in the world of science in recent decades is more than likely a mirror of a similar and equally radical transformation taking place in modern society, particularly with the advent ...

“So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion”

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Alexander Morgan Capron
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insurance Discrimination

In the past several decades, the problems facing those of us who labor in the vineyards of health policy and ethics have been the problems of success — first medicine's and then, though to a lesser extent, our own. By this I mean that it has been the remarkable fruits of biomedicine, from research to health care delivery, that have produced the rich harvest of ethical, social and legal issues that have drawn our, and society's, attention.In the basic science laboratory, scientists have developed means to splice pieces of DNA together, raising questions from workplace safety to the reengineering of homo sapiens. Of more immediate concern, tests for genetic susceptibility to disease in one's self and one's offspring have been developed, thereby generating questions about employment and insurance discrimination, selective abortion, and adverse impacts on self-identity and well-being.

Mycotypha microspora. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Lycopersicon Esculentum ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Pennisetum Glaucum ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
Citrus Aurantium ◽  
Decaying Wood

Abstract A description is provided for Mycotypha microspora. Details of its geographical distribution (Libya, Nigeria, India (Tamil Nadu), Thailand, USA (Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts), Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey), and associated organisms and substrata (Equus caballus (dung), Homo sapiens, Muridae (dung), Carnegiea gigantea, Citrus aurantium, Gossypium, Lycopersicon esculentum, Pennisetum typhoideum [Pennisetum glaucum], air, bark, decaying wood, dung, leaf, paper and rhizosphere) are provided.

scholarly journals Dental tissue proportions in fossil orangutans from mainland Asia and Indonesia

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya M. Smith ◽  
Anne-Marie Bacon ◽  
Fabrice Demeter ◽  
Ottmar Kullmer ◽  
Kim Thuy Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Homo Erectus ◽  
Dental Tissue ◽  
Developmental Constraints ◽  
Enamel Thickness ◽  
Selective Pressures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geometric Scaling ◽  
Dental Reduction

Orangutans (Pongo) are the only great ape genus with a substantial Pleistocene and Holocene fossil record, demonstrating a much larger geographic range than extant populations. In addition to having an extensive fossil record, Pongo shows several convergent morphological similarities with Homo, including a trend of dental reduction during the past million years. While studies have documented variation in dental tissue proportions among species of Homo, little is known about variation in enamel thickness within fossil orangutans. Here we assess dental tissue proportions, including conventional enamel thickness indices, in a large sample of fossil orangutan postcanine teeth from mainland Asia and Indonesia. We find few differences between regions, except for significantly lower average enamel thickness (AET) values in Indonesian mandibular first molars. Differences between fossil and extant orangutans are more marked, with fossil Pongo showing higher AET in most postcanine teeth. These differences are significant for maxillary and mandibular first molars. Fossil orangutans show higher AET than extant Pongo due to greater enamel cap areas, which exceed increases in enamel-dentine junction length (due to geometric scaling of areas and lengths for the AET index calculation). We also find greater dentine areas in fossil orangutans, but relative enamel thickness indices do not differ between fossil and extant taxa. When changes in dental tissue proportions between fossil and extant orangutans are compared with fossil and recent Homo sapiens, Pongo appears to show isometric reduction in enamel and dentine, while crown reduction in H. sapiens appears to be due to preferential loss of dentine. Disparate selective pressures or developmental constraints may underlie these patterns. Finally, the finding of moderately thick molar enamel in fossil orangutans may represent an additional convergent dental similarity with Homo erectus, complicating attempts to distinguish these taxa in mixed Asian faunas. 

scholarly journals Warfare, Ethics, Ethology: evolutionary fundamentals for conflict and cooperation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Barreiros
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
African Apes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Capability ◽  
The Social

The aim of this article is to set a macro-historical narrative concerning the emergence of warfare and social ethics as symplesiomorphic features in the lineage of Homo sapiens. This means that these two behavioral aspects, representative of a very selected branch in the phylogenetic tree of the Primate order, are shared by the two lineages of great African apes that diverged from a common ancestor around six million years in the past, leading to extant humans and chimpanzees. Therefore, this article proposes an ethological understanding of warfare and social ethics, as both are innate to the social high-specialized modular mind present in the species of genera Pan and Homo. However behavioral restraints to intersocietal coalitionary violence seems to be an exclusive aspect of the transdominial modular cognition that characterizes modern humans. Thus, if in the evolutionary long durée, warfare and restrictions to intrasocial violence both appear to be ethologically common to humans and chimpanzees to a certain extent, an ethics of warfare - and, of course, the cognitive capability for intersocietal peace - seems to be distinctly human.

Vying voices of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
Caroline Adewole
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Event Tracking ◽  
Human Psyche

This article documents and explores the painful impact of a gruesome racial attack during the first lockdown in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It occurred less than a fortnight before the brutal murder of George Floyd in America. It is a reflection on the issue of racism and the marginalisation of less dominant groups in and outside the borders of Great Britain. It is the recognition and exploration in myself of an internalised colony of voices emerging as a response to the traumatic event. Tracking the intra-psychic and interpersonal dynamics involved in the racism and the subsequent attempt at an anti-racist answer leads to self-reflection on my part and the confrontation of my own bias. Eventually, I can feel my underlying vulnerability and the resulting shift. The sense of self-awareness and agency evolves into the mobilisation of an extensive mentalizing process. The article attempts to capture the subtle, insidious nature of othering and the fear behind the defences we use to keep this in place; the centrality of our capacity to courageously embrace our vulnerability as crucial to our ability to embrace and treat with dignity people who are different from us. The article touches on hopefulness that one day this socially constructed monster, racism, would be a thing of the past, not just on paper but in the human psyche also.

The effects of different factors on the levels of androstenone and skatole in pig fat

1990 ◽  
Vol 1990 ◽  
pp. 21-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
R L S Patterson ◽  
P K Elks ◽  
D B Lowe ◽  
A J Kempster
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Boar Taint ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
National Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Breed Differences ◽  
Entire Male ◽  
Meat Type

The number of entire male pigs slaughtered in Great Britain has increased steadily over the past 10 years and they now constitute some 45 per cent of the national population. Although there has been concern about possible boar taint, the industry has apparently experienced few problems. However, boar taint continues to be a major concern in other countries, possibly reflecting heavier slaughter weights and breed differences. Limited evidence indicates that earlier maturing breeds, such as the Pietrain and Duroc, tend to have more taint than other breeds of the same weight or age. This has implications for the wider use of specialist meat type sires which now supply atleast 10 per cent of the genes in the commercial British slaughter population.

A Psychiatric Service for the Disturbed Adolescent

1972 ◽  
Vol 120 (557) ◽  
pp. 429-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Evans ◽  
W. P. Acton
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Psychiatric Service ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Children’S Homes

The recognition of the need for psychiatric services for disturbed adolescents led to the opening of the first two adolescent in-patients units in Great Britain in 1949. As a result of community pressures and active encouragement by the Department of Health and Social Security since 1964, an increasing number of units have opened. Although the provision of psychiatric services specially designed to cater for the adolescent has gained momentum only in the past three to five years, the demands of this section of the population is underlined by Rosen et al. (1965) who showed, in an American survey of 750,000 clinic patients seen in 1962, that approximately one-quarter were aged between ten and nineteen years—a number representing 6 · 2 per thousand adolescents of the population served. Similar figures, namely, 6 · 6 per thousand (Kidd et al., 1968), were found in Aberdeen, and 5 · 6 per thousand (Henderson et al., 1967) were found in Edinburgh. Since an adolescent psychiatric service was opened in Edinburgh in 1967, there has been a continual increase in the demand for its services, as follows:This suggests that the previous figures were an underestimate and that psychiatric disturbance amongst adolescents may be much greater than formerly estimated. Furthermore, such referrals do not indicate the demands for help that Approved Schools and children's homes have made. The authors believe that psychiatric skills are most effectively deployed in these settings if the psychiatrist acts as a consultant to the staff, rather than by assessing and treating individual children (Evans, 1963). Even so, demands have far outstripped the available supply of psychiatric time.

Murrawarri

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Ryan D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The State ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Addition ◽  
Original Acquisition ◽  
Legal Grounds

This chapter discusses the secessionist efforts of the Murrawarri Republic, a leading example of the indigenous legal secessionist kind. Like the Catalans, the Murrawarri are using the institutional/electoral features of the state to seek their goal, but they are stressing a different normative appeal that rejects the application of terra nullius when their lands were originally claimed by Great Britain. To understand how the somewhat archaic concept of terra nullius became a core argument of contemporary Australian secessionist movements, the chapter reviews legal developments in the past few decades between aboriginals and the state. The chapter then investigates how the members of the indigenous challenge the original acquisition of their land on legal grounds and how their efforts become quite legalistic, perhaps more so than with other types of secessionism. Ultimately, the chapter argues that the Murrawarri Republic is an important addition to the study as it demonstrates a particular configuration of factors. It highlights the same tactic of compellence of the indigenous legal movements and the democratized movement, which is to use the institutions of the state.

Loch Lomond: Man's Effects on the Salmonid Community

1972 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 849-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Maitland
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
Salmo Trutta ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Fish Populations ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Nutrient Input ◽  
The Past ◽  
Loch Lomond ◽  
Sport Fish

Loch Lomond, the largest area of fresh water in Great Britain, has been utilised by man for many hundreds of years. There are fifteen species offish at present in the loch: all of these are native. Several of them have formed the basis of commercial and sport fisheries in the past but the only two species of importance at present (as sport fish) are salmon (Salmo salar) and trout (Salmo trutta). Man has influenced the loch in ways other than fishing: several fish species have been introduced (none successfully); nutrient input is increasing; loch water is used for domestic and industrial supply; many forms of recreation take place on the loch; and it is of major importance as an amenity. In spite of these stresses there is no indication of any major change in the fish populations within recorded time; nor is there any evidence that they will alter in the foreseeable future, providing a rational conservation programme is developed for the area.

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