Origins of humankind
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We spent some time mulling over many possible headings and came up short, nothing really covered all the nooks and crannies or the scope of geography, and still doesn't. In our opinion if we were to rank all the headlines we have created,... more
This teaching aid reviews the major evolutionary landmarks that over the last sixty million years marked the development of intelligence in Homo sapiens. The discussion begins with social primates and charts the adaptations that... more
Some thoughts expressed at a paper presented during the internal Fellow's conference 'The Origin and the Destiny of Life' at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and published at the first 'iPerspectives' issue, produced from this... more
Data for the dating of the earliest human art from cave sites at Maros in Sulawesi, Indonesia; Lascaux, Pech Merle, and Chauvet in southern France, and Altamira and El Castillo in Spain are reviewed. Arguments that western Europe was the... more
One central debate in the German Enlightenment concerned the “Bestimmung” or vocation of humankind, involving authors such as Spalding, Abbt, Mendelssohn, and Schiller, continued by authors such as Fichte and Reinhold. While originally... more
Bibliography and references collected by Alvah hicks concerning Native American First People origins. This collection is principally directed to inquiring for an 'out the Americas Wellspring' for all Homo sapiens sapiens populations of... more
There are fractures in the continental rock that foreshadow the destiny of a species. That of the human species in this case. Like the great East African Rift which extends over more than 6000 kilometers, from the Zambezi to the Red Sea.... more