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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jun 17, 2018 7:31:39 GMT
Why it's important to study the deep similarities, and the critical differences, between humans and the apes to seek an anthropological and evolutionary explanation. A timeline of the major events/outcomes in the human lineage across the Pleistocene and into the Holocene.
In "How Humans and Apes Are Different and Why It Matters," published in the Journal of Anthropological Research, Agustin Fuentes explores the common ancestry between humans and apes by examining characteristics that the two share. Conversely, Fuentes draws upon anthropological evidence to examine the ways in which the hominin lineage underwent changes during the Pleistocene that led to the emergence of a distinct human niche. Fuentes concludes that these divergent traits -- along with the distinctive space humans inhabit -- give humans the ability to drastically change the environment, other animals, and themselves. Initially featured as the XLIV Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished Lecture, the article explains why these evolutionary differences are still relevant today. Throughout the article, Fuentes asserts that humans are distinctive, not unique. Humans are classified as mammals and as primates. Both humans and apes belong to a group of primates known as the Hominoidea. As hominoids, humans and apes exhibit a range of similarities, including complex social relationships, large brains, and the capability to utilize tools. Evidence indicates that in the past 2 million years, individuals belonging to the genus Homo experienced significant evolutionary developments. The increasingly complex patterns that resulted served as the foundation of the human niche. A niche consists of the ecosystem an organism inhabits and all of the organism's interactions within that space. Processes occurring within this niche, including the use of fire and new modes of teaching and learning, offered humans greater control over the surrounding environment. Fuentes, in fact, proposes that the most distinctive feature of humanity is its ability to significantly alter ecosystems. Fuentes applies anthropological theory to emphasize the highly significant role humans play in determining the collective future of life on the planet. "The human baseline of creative cooperation, the ability to think, communicate, and collaborate with increasing prowess, transformed us into beings who invented the technologies that support domestication, economies, large-scale societies, warfare, and broad-scale peace. This collaborative and imaginative capacity for creativity also drove the development of religious beliefs and ethical systems, and even the production of artwork. Such capacities fueled and facilitated our ability to compete in more deadly ways. Today humans deploy many of the same capacities that enabled our success as a species to kill/control other humans and manipulate the planet to the brink of ecological devastation," Fuentes writes. While elaborating on our role in the global ecosystem, Fuentes suggests humans should engage with our differences and assume responsibility for ensuring sustainability. "Today we are reshaping the entire world, the globe, the way in which our earth exists. We are also, at more than 7 billion strong, changing the very social landscape of the human experience. We know that inequality and insecurities have broad-scale individual life-history impacts, changing the way in which people experience the world, and changing the ways in which our children grow, or don't. We created a new niche, and now we have to live with and in it, and so does pretty much everything else on the planet." Sources -- www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524141534.htm-- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/697150
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Post by Elizabeth on Jun 24, 2018 17:02:23 GMT
I think I know what you mean. They're probably out to kill me these violent beings as you said...yikes. No, you see when a normal animal attacks you it just kills you. A chimpanzee will maim you and disfigure you just for fun. The video I show below is exhibit A. It's a wild animal like a lion. Good for hunting only. Geez they're monstrous animals.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jun 24, 2018 17:32:04 GMT
No, you see when a normal animal attacks you it just kills you. A chimpanzee will maim you and disfigure you just for fun. The video I show below is exhibit A. It's a wild animal like a lion. Good for hunting only. Geez they're monstrous animals. Yes, they are monstrous animals www.ranker.com/list/brutal-facts-about-chimpanzees/rylee_en
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Post by Elizabeth on Jun 24, 2018 19:29:07 GMT
Oh m gee. I hope the next animals to go extinct would be them. They're satanic!
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Post by joustos on Jun 24, 2018 21:32:07 GMT
When you said that after 3 million years of evolution, "We have only lost the hair", you raise many questions, some of which I will pose here: -1- Are you saying that we (Caucasians, White People)differ from apes by the loss of their "furs"? If we descended from such apes, we would inherit their racial traits, namely their fury skin, their coloration, their skin constitution (with sebaceous glands that are useful for living in very hot climates), their vestigial nose as well as high sensitivity, which is required in food-seeking, and in mate seeking), etc. Furthermore, there is no such a thing as an evolution from the USE of things as tools to the INVENTION of (stone) tools. The earliest human fossils found together with stone tools are from 2.6 million years ago in Georgia (by the Caucasus Mountains), in Apulia (Southern Italy), and in the south of Ethiopia (where there is a history of fossils). Another distinctive trait of humans is speech [for social communication beyond gestures and grunts]. Speech and the intellegible hearing of speech requires a complex anatomical apparatus that involves the larynx and mouth, the ears, and a coordinating part of the brain. In the history of the Caucasoids, we notice the ability to reflect on linguistic discourses, which requires more than a speaking animal brain. [Fill in 20 more pages at this point!] -2- The question naturally arises: Has there been an evolution from primates to humans? If there has been one at all, it could not have been the Darwinian evolution by "natural selection" (or adaptation to environments). Rather, different environments may have caused mutations, as Dr. Masatoshi Nei has theorized. E.g.: -3- The early historical marks of Man: inventions, speech, and their gods. Thus, says Vico, human history is the story of the modifications of the human mind [or of the human brain].
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