Ian Tattersall is a paleo-anthropologist, author and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. In his book, “Monkey in the Mirror,” Tattersall defines “symbolic cognitive processes” as the defining…
Tag:
anthropology
-
-
As I see it, the question of consciousness on earth boils down to one of two possibilities. Either we are, as I heard an astronomer say recently, “the universe aware…
-
Today is World Lion Day. The big-money pleasure killing of a Zimbabwean lion named Cecil is being portrayed in the New York Times as humans vs. nature, romanticism vs. reality.…
-
Do our conceptions of the mind determine emotional states, or even influence them to any significant degree? Or is the globalizing culture, manifesting through family, friends and oneself, much more…
-
Costa Rica News – A thousand years ago, there were no universities training engineers but people were quite intelligent. Though they didn’t have concrete or steel they found unique ways…
-
There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, many of them by dwindling groups of indigenous people. By the end of this century, it is projected that there…
-
In his book, “Becoming Human,” paleo-anthropologist Ian Tattersall says, “In both the anatomical and the technological realms, the history of our lineage has been one of episodic innovation, and not…
-
How old is culture as we know it—culture as the former diversity of languages, customs and traditions? How old is consciousness as we know it–the underlying sameness of self, and…
- 1
- 2