Human Overpopulation - Sobrepoblación humana
In the post Evolution Carries on (II) I introduced the Haber-Bosch reaction, which was discovered in the early years of the twentieth...
top of page
"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."
Search
jijorquera
Feb 3, 20235 min read
Evolution carries on (II) Adaptation, ingenuity & population growth - La evolución continúa (II)
Adaptación, ingenio y crecimiento poblacional Not all human adaptations to the environment stem from its radical modification by our...
32 views0 comments
jijorquera
Jan 27, 20238 min read
Evolution carries on / La evolución continúa
Our ancestors developed the ability to transform the environment in their favor hundreds of thousands of years ago. This characteristic...
30 views0 comments
jijorquera
Jan 24, 20237 min read
Religion (VI) Enlightenment and Science / Religión (VI) Ilustración y ciencia
Contrary to the religiously ordained bonfires that threatened and burned so many people because they tried to draw knowledge from nature...
34 views1 comment
jijorquera
Jan 17, 202311 min read
Religion (IV): Essential Functions – II / Religión (IV): Funciones esenciales - II
The previous post defined the main essential functions of religion (1): 1) Explanation; 2) Appeasement of anxiety; 3) Consolation; 4)...
25 views1 comment
jijorquera
Jan 13, 20238 min read
Religion (III): Essential Functions - I / Religión (III): Funciones esenciales - I
In previous posts on religion we have reviewed the evolutionary justification of religion as well as the “religious Darwinism” or...
56 views1 comment
jijorquera
Jan 10, 20235 min read
Religion (II) and Darwinism / Religión (II) y darwinismo
Geographer and historian Jared Diamond defines religion as a set of characteristics that distinguish a human social group that shares...
43 views2 comments
jijorquera
Jan 5, 202311 min read
Religion: Evolutionary justification / Religión: Justificación evolutiva
Totem / Tótem Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that...
62 views1 comment
jijorquera
Dec 30, 202215 min read
Societies (VI): Progress, Inequality, Revolutions / Sociedades (VI): progreso, desigualdad...
Today over 56% of humanity—about 4.5 billion out of 8 billion individuals habiting our planet—live in cities, according to the U.N. While...
34 views0 comments
jijorquera
Dec 22, 20224 min read
Societies (V): First civilizations -Gilgamesh/ Sociedades (V) Primeras civilizaciones -Gilgamesh
Many characteristics of modern societies were already observed when the first chiefdoms consolidated into states. These attributes...
23 views0 comments
jijorquera
Dec 16, 202210 min read
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...
27 views0 comments
jijorquera
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...
28 views0 comments
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...
28 views0 comments
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)...
24 views0 comments
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,...
26 views0 comments
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...
34 views0 comments
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,...
57 views0 comments
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...
37 views0 comments
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...
23 views0 comments
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...
30 views0 comments
Blog: Blog2
bottom of page