[Xmca-l] Re: Cultural historical

[Martin Packer]

David, they wouldn't have known they were leaving their home continent, would they? Some of them were just lucky enough to wander in the direction of a land bridge, instead of into the ocean. Like any species that spreads into a new geographical location, no conscious decision required.

Martin, who wandered into South America




> On Mar 19, 2018, at 7:50 AM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Somewhere in the discussion of Monica and Fernando's article, Fernando made
> the remark that history does not know "ifs". Similarly, Monica implied at
> one point that large technological changes must be taken as given; they are
> not something over which humans have control. But even if we accept
> the "Out of Africa" story which this article undermines, we are left with
> the apparently conscious decision of early hominids to leave the home
> continent, something none of the other great apes ever determined upon.
> Vygotsky remarked that rudiments of all four forms of higher
> behavior--instinct, enculturation, creativity, and free will that is none
> of these--appear even in infancy. So it appears that free will was always
> part of anthropogenesis, and consequently that history--including present
> history--knows nothing but ifs. We just don't see the others because we are
> sitting in one of them.
> 
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
> 
> Recent Article in *Early Years*
> 
> The question of questions: Hasan’s critiques, Vygotsky’s crises, and the
> child’s first interrogatives
> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09575146.2018.1431874>
> 
> Free e-print available at:
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EeWMigjFARavQjDJjcW/full
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:33 AM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> This synoptic story of the current state of research on human origins seems
>> relevant to the cultural-historical folks around.
>> mike
>> 
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