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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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Comment by Doone 22 hours ago
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Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evan.21787?af=R#.XULtLzOjSWA.twitter…
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The Remarkable Physical Condition of Australian Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers
http://darwinian-medicine.com/the-remarkable-physical-condition-of-...
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Comment by Mrs.B on January 11, 2020 at 5:03pm
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Very good looking too.
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Australopithecus afarensis - by Paleoartist Viktor Deak http://blog.hmns.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lucy-rendering-Viktor-Deak.jpg…
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We're beginning to question the idea of species – including humans http://bit.ly/2SjerlL
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Origin story: Rewriting human history through DNA
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-story-rewriting-human-history-dna.html… via
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Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought
A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright
An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South-East Asia, a new study has revealed.
Homo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.
New dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.
This means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.
Details of the result are described in the journal Nature.
In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central Java.
In subsequent decades, researchers have attempted to date the fossils. But this proved difficult because the surrounding geology is complex and details of the original excavations became confused.Prof Russell Ciochon with replicas of the Homo erectus skull caps found at Ngandong
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The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6457/eaat7487…
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Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals' extinction – study
Scientists broadly agree that the Neanderthals died out about 40,000 years ago. Photograph: IanDagnall
Perhaps it wasn’t our fault after all: research into the demise of the Neanderthals has found that rather than being outsmarted by Homo sapiens, our burly, thick-browed cousins may have gone extinct through bad luck alone.
The Neanderthal population was so small at the time modern humans arrived in Europe and the Near East that inbreeding and natural fluctuations in birth rates, death rates and sex ratios could have finished them off, the scientists claim.
The findings suggest that the first modern humans to reach Europe were not superior to the Neanderthals, as some accounts argue, and that anyone encumbered by survivors’ guilt may have good reason to unburden themselves.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/27/bad-luck-may-have-c...
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