Homo sapiens

Political polarization has always been a deeply rooted reality of American politics but it traces further back than the United States itself. Darwin proposed that morality was an adaption which evolved by natural selection both at an individual level and a group level. Morality or a strong commitment to virtue helped group cohesion and lead tribes with more virtuous members to take over other tribes which did not. In his book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt argues that group selection shaped…

Facebook profile picture to a rainbow in support of the legalization of gay marriage in the United States or starting up a LGBTQ club in their community or at their school, move society closer and closer to reaching the goal of equality for all Homo Sapiens, regardless of who they love or how they view themselves. The actions that individuals take will lead to a fully accepting and loving society. After all, as the famous United States president, Thomas Jefferson once said, “Do you want to know…

the skeleton of humans and our closest living relatives. These similarities are important in understanding where humans, as a species, stand in the complex evolutionary world. Although the similarities are important, the differences are what make Homo sapiens the only habitually bipedal animal on earth. The subtle differences are what allow the species to travel so efficiently and use the other limbs to manipulate the world. The ability to interact with the world has allowed humans to grow…

reliable narrator in that he isn’t lying to the audience, but he is just a regular human being. He’s not omniscient and sometimes his opinions (or lack of information) could alter the truth of what he’s saying. His character (and the rest of the homo sapien population) did not know much of anything about the cavemen. But if you rewrite the story from that new perspective, it can change the entire message. It goes from a story talking about the acceptance of other people and of appreciating what…

that emotion come from? While it is much easier to trace the evolutionary history of stronger emotions such as fear and disgust, even weaker emotions like compassion have their primeval origins. It is likely that over the countless millennia when homo sapiens subsisted in small groups, compassion was an advantageous trait as it would have contributed to cooperation and reciprocity. However, a possible objection is that all human features by definition have an evolutionary past–as human traits…

Humans, or homo sapiens, are complex animals who are autopoietic entities. This means that they are self-generating and are not dependent on anything external to the body to direct construction and maintenance processes. While humans are alive, they continue to generate themselves. Because nothing from our outside organisation can direct our operation, we are autonomous. We are structure determined as our behaviour is determined by our structure in a particular environment. We can be perturbed…

For a long time human ignorance and our ethical values have destroyed and diminished the land that surrounds us. In the “Land Ethic” by Aldo Leopold, the need for an ethic directed towards the creatures and land around us is stressed upon. Leopold mentions how a lack of an ecological conscience, a valuation problem, and a restricted vision of community result in the hindrance of a comprehensive land ethic. The absence of our care for our natural surroundings can also be seen in the four forms…

“factual, historical document”, will be supplanted with classes exposing the “good” book as ahistorical, scientifically disproven, and conspicuously manmade. In place of Adam and Eve and evil serpents, classes will contain the proven science of how homo sapiens were borne from an ancestral grouping of humans which evolved over millions of years and is inseparable from our precursors. As surprising as it might seem to some - people never lived inside of whales, or joy-rode upon Dinosaurs. Nor did…

murder of a pregnant woman counts as two murders. This law states that a “Child in utero” is a legal victim of violent crime if it is killed or hurt due to the violence against its mother. A “Child in utero” is defined as “A member of the species Homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb” and can have murder charges if it is killed. Title 18, Section 1841 part 2A of the United States Code states “The punishment for that separate offense is the same as the…

It is right for human beings to manipulate nature for their benefit. Without doing such things humans would not have lifesaving medicines or other beneficial procedures. Also, the act of altering nature is in itself a natural phenomenon, common to many species other than human beings. In addition, without the manipulation of nature we would not have anything other than the very basest of lifestyles; therefore, we would never have progressed past our ancient B.C. ancestors’ way of life. Finally,…