Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth; Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in...
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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.
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth; Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna
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.
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Nature of Humanity A Personal View
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our
exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for
the first time. -Little Gidding (1942) by T. S. Eliot
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Darwin 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)
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them
round to dinner. 42 Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
1978.
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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.
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Survival and Sexual Selection Symmetry Secondary sexual
characters
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Patterns of Reproduction that are different from the other
living apes Males and females contribute to raising young Males and
females remain in extended monogamous relationship Live in family
groups within larger groups Deacon. 1997.
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Culture feedback loop Goodness Beauty , , . ~ It is amazing how
complete the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~ Leo Tolstoy
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Human Self- Domestication or Behavioral Neoteny Can explain
human physical neoteny Smaller skulls, teeth and brains Bodies more
gracile and juvenile in appearance Domesticated behaviors Reduction
in adrenal response and decrease in violence Increased social
intelligence Increase in behavioral plasticity vs stereotypic
interaction
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Origin of High Culture Domestication of species (mainly
herbivorous mammals and grasses) Importance of place Important
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 NAME REGION OF DOMESTICATION RiceOryzaAsia
WheatTriticumMiddle East MaizeZeaCentral America
BarleyHordeumMiddle East Pearl MilletPennisetumSouth Africa Foxtail
MilletSetariaEast Asia Proso MilletPanicumAsia Finger
MilletEleusineEthiopia RyeSecaleTurkey OatsAvenaMiddle East Sorghum
(milo)SorghumNorthern Africa
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Culture Biological Basis Food Tribe Protection Teaching
Language Symbolic communication
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Paintings of Lascaux ~17,300 BP
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
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http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/ Mona Lisa
La Gioconda -da Vinci (1503-1519)
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Caf Terrace at Night -van Gogh (1888)
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http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek/venus_de_milo.jpg.html
Venus de Milo -Alexandros of Antioch (~130-100 BCE)
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Venus of Brassempouy France; ivory Venus of Willendorf Austria;
limestone Female images ~29,000-22,000 BP
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Zorba the Greek Nikos Kasantzakis (1946)
http://www.ffolio.com/abarchive/film/zorba.html
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Romania Cimpoi Unu Doi Trei Patru Cinci ase
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Kosovka Gaida
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Blue areas indicate concentrations of Roma in Kosovo in a 1991
census
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Battle of Agincourt Fought 25 October 1415 (St. Crispins
Day)
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Agincourt Song early 15 th century
http://battlefieldvacations.com/france/aginco.htm Deo gratias
Anglia redde pro victoria! [England, give thanks to God for
victory!] Owre Kynge went forth to Normandy With grace and myght of
chyvalry Ther God for hym wrought mervelusly; Wherefore Englonde
may call and cry Chorus Deo gratias! Deo gratias Anglia redde pro
victoria! He sette sege, forsothe to say, To Harflu towne with ryal
aray; That toune he wan and made afray That Fraunce shal rewe tyl
domesday. Chorus
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God 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 1744
http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/unitedkingtexte.htm
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America My country, tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty Of thee
I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims pride,
From evry mountainside Let freedom ring! Lyrics by Samuel Francis
Smith (1831)
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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 1967
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Richard Dawkins A meme is anything that infects itself from
brain to brain. Dawkins. 1998. Unweaving the Rainbow.
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Written Language
http://www.gutenberg.de/english/erfindun.htm
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Then 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 2:7
Allah created you from dust and water, then He made you in
pairs (male and female). Surah 7, Ayat 11
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Ovids Metamorphoses (CE 8) Minerva (Athena) with Prometheus
creating humankind. Rome 3 rd CE
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Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform >7,000 years ago
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
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Rubaiyat 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 Wit Shall lure it
back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of
it. -LXXI
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http://www.twainquotes.com/http://www.twainquotes.com/ from his
posthumous work, Letters from the Earth (released 1962)
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Stephen Jay Gould
http://www.annonline.com/interviews/961009/biography.html: (2001)
WGBH, Stephen Jay Gould: Understanding Evolution Humans 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.
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What a piece of work is man.
http://www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/ from Hamlet (1599-1601)
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Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960623.html
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Footprints at Laetoli
http://www.humanevolution.f2s.com/laetolifoot.html
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E. O. Wilson The human species can change its own nature. What
will it choose? Wilson. 1978. On Human Nature.
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H. G. Wells http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/wells/wells.htm A
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.