Test 4 -Anthropology 152

Test 4

Anthropology 152 !

Due Wednesday, November 30, 2022

A) 1) Continue collecting an inventory of 10 symbolic, , 10 iconographic and 10 indexical signs you receive or send while driving;

2) 10 Safety habits you practice while driving .

This Test item continues as an item from Test 3 on “Car Culture” : symbolic and indexical communication in vehicular society.

3) Add a small diary of thoughts while driving. Keep the diary to yourself to the extent that you want to. Turn in what you want of this diary. Such things as your thoughts about other car’s driving style, habits, behavior, mentality.

B) What is Antoinette Blackwell’s critique of Charles Darwin and Spenser’s opinions on human evolution; expressed in part in Darwin’s book _The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex_? How are Blackwell and Professor Brown in agreement on Homo sapiens Nature’s ( Human Nature’s) essential characteristics which gave humans Darwinian fitness superior to all other primates, mammals, vertebrates and other animals ? What is the ultimate measure of Darwinian fitness and adaptation success ?

C) What are Professor Brown’s hypothesis and interpretations of Biblical parables as expressing the same ideas as anthropological science on human origins and original symbolic communication ? Especially , in _Genesis_ of The Bible