Abbreviations in Space and Time -Punctuated Equilibrium (PE): Homo erects and Homo sapiens sapiens as Cohorts or Cul-de-sac

Abbreviations in Space and Time - Punctuated Equilibrium (PE): Homo erects and Homo sapiens sapiens as Cohorts or Cul-de-sac? By Alvah M. Hicks ABSTRACT Do you ever look back into a document to find the long-version of an abbreviated short-take (an acronym)? For instance; Homo sapiens sapiens (Hss); or Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH). I propose researchers highlight the first-use of later abbreviated acronyms/referrals as exemplified here; There is no difference in identifying our ancestors as; Homo sapiens sapiens (Hss); or Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) when comparing them to living human continental descendants. Another style currently used is to ‘List Acronyms’ in the text at the beginning of the Text. This system would make-it easier reconcile our current place in the document by going back to find the initial reference at the time it was first articulated. ACRONYMS: Homo sapiens sapiens (Hss) Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) Punctuated Equilibrium (PE) Homo erectus (He) Species-Identification (SI) Human-Origins-Research (HOR) years before the present (ybp) years beyond the present (ybp) Homo sapiens sapiens is used as (Hss) with the understanding that it translates best to our species being a fully and behaviorally Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) species (another style/example/option). The following quote from the seminal compilation relating to “The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc. Smith, Fred H., Spencer, Frank (eds) 1984: A major problem confronting late 19th century human evolutionists was the incipient argument for the relative stability of the human form. From accumulating skeletal evidence it appeared as if the modern human skeleton extended far back in time, an apparent fact which led many workers to either abandon or modify their views on human evolution. One such apostate was Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913). In 1887, Wallace examined the evidence for early “early man” in the New World, and, like the German anatomist Julian Kollman (1834-1918) who three years earlier had made a similar survey, found not only considerable evidence of antiquity from the available specimens, but also, a continuity of type through time. In an effort to explain this, Wallace [1889, pp 454-461] suggested that once man had become morphologically differentiated from his apish kin (during the mid-Tertiary period), he had remained physically stable (Frank Spencer 1984 pg. 7 emphasis added). We did not go through a recent “modern” anatomical change in speciation if we originated in the New World and we cannot use the “modern” nomenclature as we may have been fully anatomically human with behavioral advancements linked to adaptation, perhaps best forged during migration(s) into new environments. For-instance; as anatomically modern humans (AMH)s settled the Eastern Hemisphere. Thusly, if one where to include the Americas in the realm of Hss origins the argument would include the theoretical opine turn-of-the-Century advocates made for “the relative stability of the modern human form.” over time.” Grammatically-textually-speaking, Punctuated-equilibrium (PE), would thus be converted to Punctuated Equilibrium (PE), when first used in the text and in the ‘List-of-acronyms’, while future use in the document would remain in-stasis although the change at the beginning would shorten the original convention, i.e., to PE. By example, once something becomes “morphologically differentiated” (grammatically or behaviorally), it often remains “physically stable.” The Dolphin and the Whale and the Wolf and (Darwin’s) Bear now hippopotamus represent aquatic examples of mammalian PE, perhaps the Earth’s best example of PE. “Hippos are the closest living relatives of whales, but they are not the ancestors of whales. Both hippos and whales evolved from four-legged, even-toed, hoofed (ungulate) ancestors that lived on land about 50 million years ago. Modern-day ungulates include hippopotamus, giraffe, deer, pig and cow. Unlike the hippo’s ancestor, whale ancestors moved to the sea and evolved into swimming creatures over a period of about 8 million years.” Not really PE as PE is very scares in paleontological examples. Quote from WDC Conversely, the sudden-shift/PE to our so-called fully-modern-form (AMH), from a long-established separate species Homo erectus (He), suggests, by-all-definitions of Species-Identification (SI), Tattersall and Swartz 2009 Volume 17, Issue 1, January/February 2008, Pages: 49–54, Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz Article first published online: 22 FEB 2008, DOI: 10.1002/evan.20153 From the “Conclusion” ‘For a variety of historical reasons explored above, our species has contrived to elude satisfactory morphological definition. Through a sort of self-reinforcing process, whereby each reasonable large-brained extinct form that was shoehorned into the taxon has appeared to enlarge its permissible morphological limits, a huge variety of morphologies has been admitted into H. sapiens, albeit sometimes into archaic varieties of the species. Acceptance of this muddled variety has been facilitated by a view of evolution that emphasizes gradual transformation in lineages, in which species are basically units of convenience rather than of biology, and that are expected in principle to be undefinable in morphological terms. To systematists studying other groups of mammals, this situation would be untenable; it would indeed, effectively prevent them from plying their trade using currently fashionable approaches, but paleoanthropologists have remained fairly unperturbed because, after all, as human being we “know who we are,” and do not really need to be told, which absolves us, of course, from having to find out (Tattersall and Schwartz 2008, pg. 52).’ an example of PE, in a most polemically sudden process. “A major problem confronting late 19th century human evolutionists” remains, while researchers are forced to accept that (SI) into-the-past rarely supports episodes of PE. Discounting this would seem to make new-rules when it comes to our species place amongst the paleontological record. Evolution is a grand design but let’s not take it beyond the test-of-time evidenced by the relative stability of anatomical/paleontological beings (anthropoids. Bovidae, Equidae, Proboscidea), over time. Stasis is best suited for adaptation and behavioral modernity that trace a species place within/into a sometimes-changing niche it finds itself, in both space-and-time. Thus, He is not a AMH unless PE has something to say about this sudden procrustean transition. The abbreviated state of Human-Origins-Research (HOR), has yet to examine the consequences of terminal He extinctions coinciding with ancient Paleoamerican AMH habitation of the southern and western hemisphere. Monte Verde I, dated to 33,000 years before the present (ybp), is a Chilean conundrum, an-elephant in-the-room if-you-will, awaiting a scientific evaluation of a fundamental behavior underscoring a basal evolutionary presence. Eric Trinkaus mentioned in 1985 at a SAA luncheon he hosted: ‘Monte Verde I would-be a 'game-changer', and he was not just taking the New World into the picture, but the ideological significance on Old-World evolutionary discussion(s). Anthropology and the anatomical relativity encompassing Homo is Eric Trinkaus’ specialty while acknowledging the significance if MV I was validated being, again; ‘a game-changer’. HOR has yet to expand the planetary scope of SI when the only place Hss has solely occupied as a hominid species, would be the Americas. SI and an American Wellspring for AMH offers the only source for a non-PE or procrustean transition from He to Hss. ‘Early “early Man” or AMH finds in the Americas champion the only untested habitat conforming with the “relative stability of the human form” suggesting the “modern human skeleton extended far back in time” and to have “remained physically stable.” (see-here-in; documented quote Frank Spencer 1984 pg. 7 all emphasis added.” Looking back into a document to find an abbreviation or short-cut to extrapolate a singular reference should not be a burden-of-time but a manifestation of the benefits of looking ahead. The terms that highlight our human past as an evolved species, distinctly part of-all-our-relations we have long shared our past and future niche with, requires an ongoing obligation respective to our common heritage in deference of Planet Earth as the mother of living beings. Our future holds true our obligation to get our past in-line with Hss place as AMHs, capable of looking forward thousands of years beyond the present (ybp). It is time to get the present right, even if it requires, we re-examine our initial preconceptions and the exclusions of whole Hemispheres in the search for human origins. The continuation of our species over time, the niches we first occupied, the explorations that took us into and through unexplored worlds, the adaptations secured along the way, it is all part and parcel to the place we inhabit today and ybp. It is time to set our goals again of attaining self-perpetuality into the Future (i.e., Ian Hodder 2020). STUDIES IN HUMAN-THING ENTANGLEMENT Ian Hodder 2016 https://www.academia.edu/23001428/STUDIES_IN_HUMAN_THING_ENTANGLEMENT_Ian_Hodder Should we examine an American Wellspring in evolutionary scientific terms? It offers a view looking not just outside-the-box but free-of-the-box. The Past matters even if. and it is time to recognize our obligation to tackle the threat to survival our place as an evolved being requires we now do. “All our relatives” are relying on us.