Re: [xmca] Thoughts on this

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

A good resource on this topic is the Smithsonian's site:

<http://humanorigins.si.edu/>

Martin

On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:20 AM, Carol Macdonald wrote:

> The excerpt was from a report on a ongoing 5 day conference. It's the state
> of art thinking--that's why I posted it.
> 
> But I liked your response--tee hee!
> 
> Cx
> 
> On 16 September 2012 03:52, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> 
>> Who is dismissing "recent research"? What I am dismissing is a blatant
>> journalistic effort to discover the causes of the human condition in the
>> Nature - the modern name given to God. Of course the article was littered
>> with bits of science, but bits of science cobbled together to fit an
>> ideological template.
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> John Cripps Clark wrote:
>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> Although Tattersall's speculation may not be a shining example, recent
>>> research in human evolution is far too interesting and important to dismiss
>>> as social darwinism. See for example:
>>> 
>>> Yong, E. Our hybrid origins. New Scientist, 211(2823), 34-38.
>>> http://www.abc.net.au/**radionational/programs/**
>>> scienceshow/georgian-bones-**rewrite-story-of-human-**evolution/3056682<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/georgian-bones-rewrite-story-of-human-evolution/3056682>
>>> http://theconversation.edu.au/**new-fossils-confirm-diversity-**
>>> was-the-rule-for-human-**evolution-8760<http://theconversation.edu.au/new-fossils-confirm-diversity-was-the-rule-for-human-evolution-8760>
>>> http://theconversation.edu.au/**sex-with-our-evolutionary-**
>>> ancestors-proceed-with-**caution-8923<http://theconversation.edu.au/sex-with-our-evolutionary-ancestors-proceed-with-caution-8923>
>>> 
>>> Trying to apply this to our present condition is another matter.
>>> 
>>> John Cripps Clark
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ______________________________**__________
>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] on
>>> behalf of Andy Blunden [ablunden@mira.net]
>>> Sent: Sunday, 16 September 2012 11:36 AM
>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Thoughts on this
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Social Darwinism rides again. Take an ideological belief about human
>>> society, transfer it to Nature and then declare that since Nature is
>>> like this then so must human society, so stop wingeing and  get in the
>>> bread line.
>>> 
>>> I prefer old Kropotkin:
>>> http://www.marxists.org/**reference/archive/kropotkin-**
>>> peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.**htm<http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1902/mutual-aid/index.htm>
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> Carol Macdonald wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**science-environment-19598980<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19598980>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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