Contemporary Relevance of Archaeology: The Future of Human Evolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-59
Author(s):  
Michael Chazan
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1968 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 348-389 ◽  

Hermann Joseph Muller died on 5 April 1967, at the age of 76, after several years of struggle with a heart condition. Biology has lost one of its outstanding pioneers and leaders. His decisive contributions—both in theory and in experiments, many of them in advance of his time—opened and marked step by step the trail from the Mendelism of the 1910’s to the molecular biology of the 1960’s. His last two papers—prepared in 1965 and 1966—‘The gene material as the initiator and the organizing basis of life’ (369) * and ‘What genetic course will man steer?’ (372)—give a grand view of that trail, of where it has led and of which biological issues the knowledge so acquired presents to mankind. In the public mind Muller’s eminence is based on his vast and profound contributions to experimental genetics, his discovery of the mutagenic effects of ionizing radiations—which motivated the award of the Nobel Prize in 1946—and his efforts to make the genetic hazards of radiations understood and to limit these hazards. There is a widespread tendency to dismiss his concern for the future course of human evolution, and in particular his practical proposals for voluntary germinal choice, as senile deviations, amusing if they were not fraught with danger. Two facts show how wrong is this belief. * Numbers in parentheses refer to publication number in list of published works. Sentences in inverted commas without numbers are from two autobiographical manuscripts of 1936 and 1941, respectively.


2001 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
John Rennie
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Author(s):  
Gemma Marfany

Can humans control the future evolution of our species? Based on current knowledge in genetics, one can infer and extrapolate what may happen in the near future. After all, if we are to predict the future, we must first understand the foundations of our present. To answer the first question, I will briefly present what we know about our genome and whether we have enough data to infer who we are (known as the genotype–phenotype correlation), then I will present new technological advances and their potential impact on our evolution.


Author(s):  
Hans J. Lundager Jensen

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction to and discussion of Robert Bellah's major book, Religion in Human Evolution (2011). which defines and describes tribal religion (religion in pre-state societies), archaic religion (religion in early states) and religious currents in the axial age, the period in the middle of 1st mill. BC, where new radical and intellectual ideas and practices, sceptial or world renouncing, appeared in China, India and Greece. Hopefully, Bellah's book will be a standard reference work in the academic study of religion and an inspiration for the history of religion in the future to engage in historical and comparative studies.DANSK RESUMÉ: Introduktion til og diskussion af Robert Bellahs hovedværk fra 2011, Religion in Human Evolution, der definerer og beskriver tribal religion, dvs. religion i før-statslige samfund, arkaisk religion, dvs. religion i tidlig-statslige kulturer samt religiøse strømninger i aksetiden, perioden i midten af 1. årt. f.Kr., hvor nye radikale og intellektuelle, skeptiske eller verdensafvisende, tankegange og livsformer formuleres i Kina, Indien og Grækenland. Bogen bør betragtes som et hovedværk i aktuel religionsforskning, og den vil forhåbentlig kunne inspirere religionshistorien til også at drive historisk-komparativ forskning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Augusto Renato Pérez Mayo ◽  
Roque Nieto Nohemí

There are three concepts represented that prove the possibilities of finding a plan B for humankind towards a pandemic such as Covid-19. Our papers focus in the study for the prove of the organizational ambit in Mexico, where it hasn’t been valued as a way of well-being to fortify people for a pandemic like Covid-19 in the organizations, that is to say, about which should be the Plan B for humankind, schools, universities, media, governments, and other domains. There is literature presented that provides arguments of an emergent and meaningful change in the paradigm of human evolution and other organization during future pandemics. To describe this change of strategy, we revisit Florentino, Ríos, Carrillo and Sacubo, Molina, Castello, Mikulic and Fernández, Palomar, Matus, Victorio among others. In any context where people are developed, they must confront situations that can affect significantly their life dynamics and lose forever the perception of a reality built over years of life, exposing them to risks on their physical, mental and emotional health. It is argued that the reason why organizations are not listening more, about the emergent sociocultural, economic, political, and even philosophical change that Covid-19 has caused. The general idea of a change on an emergent paradigm and the next step on the history of humankind is being hatched.


2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy L. Buckner

AbstractSuddendorf & Corballis (S&C) propose that the capacity to flexibly forsee the future was a critical step in human evolution and is accomplished by a set of component processes that can be likened to a theater production. Understanding the brain-bases of these functions may help to clarify the hypothesized component processes, inform us of how and when they are used adaptively, and also provide empirical ways of exploring to what degree these abilities exist and are implemented similarly (or differently) across species.


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