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THE NAKED APE: Exploring the science and cultural evolution of human psychology, behavior, cognition, language, memory, intelligence, emotion, and consciousness. (Uh, did I miss anything?)
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Welcome to THE NAKED APE
Those who’ve know me for some time know that I have a moderately strong interest in human consciousness and psychology. Although mind and body cannot exist without one another – and indeed they shape one another – it does seem that the very core of the human experience of ‘self’ exists in the brain alone.
We all know that much of the functioning and maintenance of our body is controlled covertly by the brain or by biological systems that work beneath our threshold of awareness. We do not consciously decide to sweat, or digest our food, or replace our cells.
And yet, in spite of the fact that we know this, we still cling to the illusion that the functioning of our thoughts, our decisions, our perceptions, our preferences, our memories, and our reasoning are under our direct, conscious control.
But neuroscience and psychology are now showing us that this simply is not the case—that the processes of mind and awareness function just as covertly as our biological systems.
That fascinates me!
How is it that the mind – that place of concealment – is also the one place in which awareness itself is known to exist?
The truth is that we don’t know ourselves as well as we’d like to believe. We don’t control our decisions, our perceptions, our motivations, or our memories as well as we think we do.
THE NAKED APE was created to explore these important topics. I welcome any post on human psychology, behavior, cognition, perception, language, memory, intelligence, emotion, and consciousness.
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Is Spatial Ability (as described here) Related To Directional Sense?
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Our Orgastic Future
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E.O. Wilson: Tribalism, Groupism, Globalism
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The difference between how you see yourself and how others see you.
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How Whites Think About Race
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How to scare someone who knows no fear
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People Merge Supernatural and Scientific Beliefs When Reasoning With the Unknown, Study Shows
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10 Amazing Things People's Brains Have Done
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Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species https://nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11213-w… "H. sapiens appears to have originated from the coalescence of South and, possibly, East-African source populations"
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Multiple lines of mysterious ancient humans interbred with us https://on.natgeo.com/2ZKnvzU
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Among the many links Kelso and Dannemann identified as they dug into data from more than 112,000 individuals in the UKB was, once again, an association between certain Neander-thal variants and aspects of skin biology.5 Specifically, the archaic sequences spanning the BNC2 gene—a stretch of the genome that Vernot and Akey had identified as having Neanderthal origin in some 70 percent of non-Africans—were very clearly associated with skin color. People who carried Neanderthal DNA there tended to have pale skin that burned instead of tanned, Kelso says. And the stretch that included BNC2 was just one of many, she adds: around 50 percent of Neanderthal variants linked with phenotype in her study have something to do with skin or hair color.
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Our ancestor from 3.8 million years ago
https://www.newsweek.com/face-ancient-human-revealed-evolution-1456512
The reconstructed face of MRD, a young male belonging to the Australopithecus anamensis. Its discovery has been called a "game changer" for our understanding of human evolution 3.8 million years ago.MATT CROW, COURTESY OF THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Early human evolution is not well understood—and as more fossils are discovered, the picture becomes even more complex. Different species of hominin—which includes the genus Homo, to which humans belong—lived at different times, overlapping in time and space, with new species emerging at different, unknown points.
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Australopithecus Evolution
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The Oldest True Stories in the World https://sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/… via
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VIDEO - Assessing Claims for the “Earliest” Homo sapiens - Berhane Asfaw https://carta.anthropogeny.org/mediaplayer/play/316893/303861… vi
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The Short Nosed Bear. Scientists speculate that these delayed human migration into N.A. because they kept picking us off in the Bering Strait.
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