Societies (IV): Farming / Sociedades (IV): Agricultura
Primitive farmer / Granjero primitivo Agriculture began in many different parts of the world. It appeared first with the cultivation of...
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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Dec 8, 202210 min read
Societies (III): From bands to states / Sociedades (III): Desde las bandas a los estados
The social, cultural, and technical sophistication of nations, their higher development and capacity to dominate and conquer other...
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jijorquera
Dec 6, 20229 min read
Societies (II) and Myths / Sociedades (II) y mitos
Homo sapiens took cooperation to an unthinkable height, even for our most recent ancestors. Our ability to cooperate is, in part, what...
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jijorquera
Nov 25, 202210 min read
Human Societies / Sociedades humanas
I am as free as Nature first made man, ‘Ere the base Laws of Servitude began, When wild in woods the noble Savage ran. —John Dryden (1)...
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jijorquera
Nov 18, 202214 min read
Human Nature (III): The relativity theory and the dance of Macarena
Naturaleza humana (III): La teoría de la Relatividad y el baile de la Macarena James Cagney I've always maintained that in this business,...
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jijorquera
Nov 11, 20229 min read
Human Nature (II) / Naturaleza humana (II)
Spanish traineras / Traineras The superb cooperation capacity of our species is enhanced by morality and social norms, including...
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jijorquera
Nov 4, 20226 min read
Human Nature / Naturaleza humana
Fernando Merlo (1952 - 1981) Two knives are my chest, one white and the other black. Help me! The white one is dying. —Fernando Merlo,...
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jijorquera
Oct 28, 202212 min read
Human Reason (III) / Razón humana (III)
At the end of the previous post on human reason I mentioned that many psychologists have shown that the use of reason and reflection on...
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jijorquera
Oct 21, 20229 min read
Human Reason (II) / Razón humana (II)
Benjamin Franklin Distrust of reason has been very common among philosophers and thinkers. In a similar way to the Enlightenment...
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jijorquera
Oct 14, 20226 min read
Human Reason and its Reasons / Razón humana y sus razones
David Hume One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape. —Frans de Waal (1) With Darwin came the realization...
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jijorquera
Oct 7, 20226 min read
Sapiens (VI): farmers / granjeros
Fertile Crescent map / Mapa del creciente fértil The farming revolution began in the Middle East—in what was once the Fertile Crescent,...
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jijorquera
Sep 30, 20229 min read
Sapiens (V): The expansion / La expansión
Homo sapiens dispersal routes / Rutas de dispersión de Homo sapiens (dates in the figure may differ from those quoted below / las fechas...
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jijorquera
Sep 23, 20228 min read
Sapiens (IV): Let’s sing and dance / Cantemos y bailemos.
In relation to the complexity of human nature, Steven Pinker indicates that there is reason to believe that the mind is furnished with a...
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jijorquera
Sep 17, 20228 min read
Sapiens (III): The Brain / El Cerebro
Parts of human brain / Partes del cerebro humano It was only after eons of time, during which millions of species had come and gone, that...
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jijorquera
Sep 9, 20226 min read
Sapiens (II): Humanity and Star Wars / La humanidad y “Star wars”
Edward Osborne Wilson (1929 – 2021) Humanity is a magnificent but fragile achievement. Our species is still more impressive because we...
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jijorquera
Sep 2, 20229 min read
Sapiens: A Planetary Odyssey / una odisea planetaria
Carl von Linné I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and...
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jijorquera
Aug 26, 20228 min read
Hominins and Homo (VI): Extinction / Homíninos y Homo (VI): Extinción
With this post I close for now the series on Hominins and Homo, as well as all the posts related to Gauguin’s first question in his...
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jijorquera
Aug 19, 20227 min read
Hominins & Homo (V): Neanderthals and Denisovans / Homíninos y Homo (V): Neandertales y denisovanos
Denisovan molar / muela denisovana In the cave of Denisova, Russia, there are human remains from between 287,000 and 45,000 years ago,...
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jijorquera
Aug 5, 20229 min read
Hominins and Homo (III): The other humans / Homíninos y Homo (III): Los otros humanos
Homo ergaster (H. erectus) About two million years ago, body and brain size of the genus Homo species increased considerably....
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jijorquera
Jul 26, 20226 min read
Evolution of Morality (III) Do not miss the video! / Evolución de la moralidad III ¡Vean el video!
(Note for spanish speaking readers: ver versión española del texto más abajo). The evolutionary and developmental origin of inequity...
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