A large portion of human thinking is about "things" we cannot see, hear, touch or feel, but only contemplate through symbols-words. Almost all animal thinking is about things they can sense or memories of things they've sensed as individuals in the past.
Through our knowledge of words individual's knowledge is knowledge of what others have sensed. Human individual knowledge is mostly social knowledge; "I" knowledge is "We" knowledge . Most animal knowledge is "I" knowledge.
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Someone said : "We have two kinds of knowledge: 1)Knowledge of matters of fact 2)Knowledge of relations of ideas as in the formal,abstract statements of math and logic."
CB:Human's have sense data knowledge of objective reality and knowledge of symbols/metaphor/high abstraction; we know trees and we know forests. Other species only know trees, concrete abstractions.
Someone else: "Greetings to the group. A new member. Give me latest. Are we still monkeys?"
We have culture/language/metaphor/algebra/ high abstract thinking ; monkeys , chimps nor gorillas do not, can't have it.
Homo Erectus had high abstract thinking 1. 7 million years ago.
By the way , we also have a common ancestor with bananas ; it's just further back on the "tree of life" in time than the one with chimps.
Darwin's less mentioned big principle is that _all_ life is related through the original life forms.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126553081
Neanderthals were early humans , otherwise they couldn't have mated with the other early humans.
Bet the Neanderthals dug the other early humans more than they dug other Neanderthals. How else would the Neanderthals fade into the masses ?
Had you heard of Antoinette Blackwell's critique of Darwin ?! It is of Descent of Man, which really is the founding text of biological anthropology , though never really labelled such in classes or texts of my memory. Blackwell founds theoretical biological anthropology, in my opinion. And today's bio-anthro is still not where she is theoretically, because it remains masculinist. Always looking for "environmental changes" to explain human evolution. It is sexual selection, by females , not survival selection by the environment , food and predators , that is the main driver of human evolution ! Eve founded eugenics .
On Dec 17, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Rowe, Bruce M. wrote:
Dear Charles,
These are all fascinating ideas! Unfortunately, they are very complex and would need analysis and research on multiply levels. I have actually been interested in concepts like this for a long time. Bipedalism certainly did change sexual communication. Some researchers have suggested that the large gluteus maximus of human is a permanent estrus display. There is the Gestural Hypothesis of the origin of language, which as the name of the hypothesis suggests, postulates that signing evolved in to oral language.
. I have listed a few links below that might of interest to you (you might already know of these articles and sites). I have not read all of them but some seem to reinforce what you are saying, some may not. You might want to also look at the current literature on epigenetics and there are a large number of papers on epigenetics and Lamarckism and epigenetics that you might be interested in looking at.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-006-9037-7
http://on-memetics.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-lamarckism-in-cultural-evolution.htmlhttp://on-memetics.blogspot.com/2013/11/on-lamarckism-in-cultural-evolution.html
I Gadjev - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
... The Dubliner is quite selective about 'Lamarckism' and has a very particular reading and
understanding of it ... According to him, Lamarck held 'that living organisms changed because they
wanted to ... He also elaborated on the 'classical' Lamarckian example of the giraffe: 'If you like ...
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... We know of no writing on Lamarckism (eg, Burkhardt, 2013; Mayr, 1972) that is consistent with
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... This is a typical feature of Lamarckian evolution (Solbrig and Solbrig 1979). ... 262 How does “Life”
evolve? Mega-evolution It is self-evident that an all-round theory of evolution [the long-sought
New Synthesis or Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES)] of biological systems ...Ideas on culture as Lamarckian-like process , and thus a Darwinian neo-teleology; Mother selection in human evolution.
I am teaching anthropology at Wayne County Community College in Detroit, Michigan , and we use your book Physical Anthropology . I would like to run a couple of ideas by you.
1) I'm thinking of our culture bearing species as having a LaMarckian-LIKE adaptive ability in that culture allows inheritance of acquired adaptive characteristics by one generation from parent , grandparent and dead generations of the species; acquired by human invention.
2) This creates a Darwinian neo-teleology for Natural History ( replacing the theological teleology with "Man" as the direction toward which natural history tends that Darwin's theory negated); because culture as a LaMarckian-like adaptive process does not depend on a random and coincidental fit between the survival problem posed by the environment and the genetic solution to the problem . What is inherited , extrasomatically, is designed to solve a survival problem posed by the environment .
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On the origin of culture and humanity: Perhaps upright-bipedalism/ ORIGIN OF HANDS was selected for because , NOT BECAUSE HANDS ALLOWED THE INVENTION OF TOOLS FOR HUNTING OR PROCESSING MEAT BUT AS THE FIRST INSTRUMENTS OF LANGUAGE, SOUND MAKERS -MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. So,Homo Habilis had language as music. Also, dancing or body language . Culture ! Culture as communicating symbolically with music was one selective advantage of hands. No stone tools until Homo Habilis because no use for production . But culture originates with hands as sound communication-music.
More importantly music conferred mating -courting advantage on the musician . Especially music and dancing. In general , culture bestows all around superior courting skills, manners. They are the original manners.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly , erect posture exposes genitalia of both sexes to sight more than on all fours. It is sexier . So, erect posture gives the ultimate selective advantage compared to on all fours: superior differential fertility !
Beautifying the Beast theory of prettifying trend in morphology among hominins ( hominids with hands):
Why this trend of reduction of sexual dimorphism , rough and big and protruding faces ? Because human females were the first scientists of genealogical and reproductive physiology ; noticing a correlation between appearance of their children and which male they let fertilize them . Mother Nature selection or Mother as natural selector .
This derives theoretically from Antoinette Blackwell's feminist critique of Darwin's masculinism, validated by modern Darwinisms recognition that differential fertility is more important than differential mortality in determining fitness
There are a couple of other "lemmas," .
Do you have any criticisms ?
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