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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"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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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 12, 20226 min read
Hominins and Homo (IV): Out of Africa / Homíninos y Homo (IV): Salida de África
Homo antecessor skull reconstruction / Reconstrucción craneal de Homo antecessor The first Hominins began to leave Africa about 2 million...
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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
Aug 2, 20225 min read
Hominins and Homo (II): Our relatives and us / Homíninos y Homo (II): Nuestros parientes y nosotros
Female Homo sapiens looking at reconstruction of female Australopithecus afarensis (“Lucy”). Homo sapiens femenina contemplando una...
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jijorquera
Jul 29, 20225 min read
Hominins and Homo: Evolutionary Preadaptations / Homíninos y Homo: preadaptaciones evolutivas
Recreation of neanderthal mother and son / Figuras de madre e hijo neandertales A sound out of time fills the cave: not the soughing and...
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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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jijorquera
Jul 21, 20225 min read
Evolution of Morality (II): Empathy II / Evolución de la moralidad (II): Empathy II
Piety? / ¿Piedad? / La Pietà? Many studies appear to corroborate that adults mourning their dead, especially if they are blood related...
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jijorquera
Jul 19, 20226 min read
Evolution of Morality: Empathy / Evolución de la moralidad: Empatía
…our wishes, judgments, and moral appraisals are simply part of the world’s physical progression, as dictated by nature’s dispassionate...
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jijorquera
Jul 15, 202211 min read
Intelligences, Cultures IV: Bonobos & Chimpanzees / Inteligencias, Culturas IV: Bonobos y Chimpancés
Chimpanzee (left panel) and Bonobo (right panel) / Chimpancé (izquierda) y Bonobo (derecha). As expected, the most complex cultural...
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jijorquera
Jul 12, 20226 min read
Intelligences and Cultures (III): Macaques and Benjamin Franklin / Macacos y Benjamín Franklin
Intelligences and cultures (III) Macaca fuscata The first case of cultural transmission—the ability to pass knowledge on from one...
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jijorquera
Jul 5, 202213 min read
Intelligences and Cultures / Inteligencias y culturas
Charles Darwin My object in this chapter is solely to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in...
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jijorquera
Jun 28, 20227 min read
Primates
The field of evolutionary cognition requires us to consider every species in full. Whether we are studying hand anatomy, trunk...
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jijorquera
Jun 26, 202211 min read
Big Life (III): Dinosaurs & the Meteorite / Gran vida (III): Dinosaurios y meteorito
Diplodocus Dinosaurs proliferated during the Triassic Period, 252 to 201 million years ago (mya), and they were also present during the...
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jijorquera
Jun 23, 20225 min read
The Big Life (II): The Great Permian Dying / La gran vida (II): La gran mortandad del Pérmico
Pangea The Carboniferous Period was followed by the Permian Period. At the end of the Permian, about 252 million years ago, just before...
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jijorquera
Jun 21, 20228 min read
The Big Life colonizes the land / La gran vida coloniza la superficie terrestre
The Cambrian explosion of life-forms led to the colonization of the land’s surface approximately 475 to 400 million years ago (1,2). The...
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jijorquera
Jun 14, 20226 min read
“Macrobes” (II): Beginning of the Phanerozoic / “Macrobios” (II): Inicio del Fanerozoico
In the previous post, “Macrobes”, we talked about how life had evolved until the Ediacaran, the last geological Period of the Precambrian...
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