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...
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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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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 1, 20227 min read
Primates (II) and Machiavelli / Primates (II) y Maquiavelo
Niccolo Machiavelli and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) / Niccolo Machiavelli y un chimpancé (Pan troglodytes) In most primate species,...
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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
Mar 12, 20222 min read
Jane Goodall discovered Chimpanzees use tools / J. G. descubrió que los chimpancés usan herramientas
On the subject of the evolution of intelligence, one of the topics of my eBook. Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist, was the first...
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