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…
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evolution
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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…
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Though parochial minds think in terms of ‘the future of America,’ or ‘the future of Latin America,’ or ‘the future of Africa,’ the issue now, as never before in human…
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The basic contradiction of man is this: ‘higher thought’ (that is, symbolic or conscious thought) is inherently separative, whereas nature and the universe operate from the principle of seamless wholeness.…
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With science replacing religion, and religion becoming a hollow imitation (or worse) of its former position and power in human civilization, the mad scientist trope has receded in movies and…
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As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…
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World News – Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet…
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An explanation, however cogent, of how humans came to operate in opposition to nature, from which Homo sapiens arose like all other life, can’t change the explained. But a new…