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Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth ; Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua . Hosanna in excelsis . Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna in excelsis . Nature of Humanity. A Personal View. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nature of Humanity
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth;Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna in excelsis.
1Nature of HumanityA Personal View2We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time. -Little Gidding (1942) by T. S. Eliot
4Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.Michael Shermer (2006)
Humans are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
42Douglas AdamsHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. 1978.6
The sexual struggle is of two kinds; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex, generally the males, in order to drive away or kill their rivals, the females remaining passive; whilst in the other, the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex, in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex, generally the females, which no longer remain passive, but select the more agreeable partners.Survival and Sexual SelectionSymmetrySecondary sexual characters
Patterns of Reproduction that are different from the other living apesMales and females contribute to raising youngMales and females remain in extended monogamous relationshipLive in family groups within larger groupsDeacon. 1997.Culture feedback loopGoodnessBeauty
, , .~ It is amazing how complete the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Human Self-DomesticationorBehavioral Neoteny
Can explain human physical neotenySmaller skulls, teeth and brainsBodies more gracile and juvenile in appearanceDomesticated behaviorsReduction in adrenal response and decrease in violenceIncreased social intelligence Increase in behavioral plasticity vs stereotypic interaction
Origin of High CultureDomestication of species (mainly herbivorous mammals and grasses)Importance of placeImportant grass grain plants of the world, their generic names, and the regions of the Earth where the plants were domesticated. Much of this information came from Glemin and Bataillon (2009).GRAINGENERIC NAMEREGION OF DOMESTICATIONRice OryzaAsiaWheat TriticumMiddle EastMaize ZeaCentral AmericaBarleyHordeumMiddle EastPearl MilletPennisetumSouth AfricaFoxtail MilletSetariaEast AsiaProso MilletPanicumAsiaFinger MilletEleusineEthiopiaRyeSecaleTurkeyOatsAvenaMiddle EastSorghum (milo)SorghumNorthern AfricaCulture Biological BasisFoodTribeProtectionTeachingLanguageSymbolic communication
Paintings of Lascaux ~17,300 BP
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/14
http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/Mona LisaLa Gioconda-da Vinci (1503-1519)15
Caf Terrace at Night-van Gogh (1888)
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek/venus_de_milo.jpg.htmlVenus de Milo -Alexandros of Antioch (~130-100 BCE)
Venus of BrassempouyFrance; ivoryVenus of WillendorfAustria; limestoneFemale images ~29,000-22,000 BPZorba the Greek Nikos Kasantzakis (1946)http://www.ffolio.com/abarchive/film/zorba.html
19RomaniaCimpoiUnuDoiTreiPatruCinciase
Kosovka Gaida
Blue areas indicate concentrations of Roma in Kosovo in a 1991 censusBattle of AgincourtFought 25 October 1415 (St. Crispins Day)
Agincourt Songearly 15th century
http://battlefieldvacations.com/france/aginco.htmDeo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria![England, give thanks to God for victory!]Owre Kynge went forth to NormandyWith grace and myght of chyvalryTher God for hym wrought mervelusly;Wherefore Englonde may call and cryChorusDeo gratias!Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria!He sette sege, forsothe to say,To Harflutowne with ryal aray;That toune he wan and made afrayThat Fraunce shal rewe tyl domesday.Chorus
25God Save the Queen
God save our gracious Queen,Long live our noble Queen,God save the Queen!Send her victorious,Happy and glorious,Long to reign over us,God save the Queen!
In present form since 1744http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/unitedkingtexte.htm
26AmericaMy country, tis of thee,Sweet land of libertyOf thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims pride,From evry mountainsideLet freedom ring!Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith (1831)Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro(Premiered May 1, 1786 in Vienna)http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html
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Released 1 June 1967Richard DawkinsA meme is anything that infects itself from brain to brain.
Dawkins. 1998. Unweaving the Rainbow.
30Written Language
http://www.gutenberg.de/english/erfindun.htm31Then the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.-Genesis 2:732Rig-Veda
http://phoenicia.org/rigveda.html
Rigveda33Allah created you from dust and water, then He made you in pairs (male and female).Surah 7, Ayat 11Ovids Metamorphoses (CE 8)
Minerva (Athena) with Prometheus creating humankind. Rome 3rd CE35Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform >7,000 years ago
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html36Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) http://www.okonlife.com/pics/index.htm
The moving finger writes;and having writ,Moves on: nor all your Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancelhalf a Line,Nor all your Tears washout a Word of it.-LXXI37
http://www.twainquotes.com/ from his posthumous work, Letters from the Earth (released 1962)38Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.annonline.com/interviews/961009/biography.html: (2001) WGBH, Stephen Jay Gould: Understanding EvolutionHumans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.What a piece of work is man.
http://www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/ from Hamlet (1599-1601)40
Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960623.html41Footprints at Laetoli
http://www.humanevolution.f2s.com/laetolifoot.html42E. O. WilsonThe human species can change its own nature. What will it choose?
Wilson. 1978. On Human Nature.
43H. G. Wellshttp://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/wells/wells.htmA day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.Wells. 1902. The Discovery of the Future. Nature 65 (326).
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Man is a small thing, but the night is large and full of wonders.
Lord Dunsany (1922) The Laughter of the Gods.
Man thinks and God laughs.46