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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 Stephen on Monday
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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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According to historian Yuval Noah Harari, it's been 125,000 generations since the emergence of human species, 7,500 since human physiology reached its current state, 500 since the agricultural revolution, and only 20 since the scientific revolution http://ow.ly/7xYC30nZIDb
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Gigantopithecus, Orangutans and Paleoproteomics (Google translate available in right margin) https://nutcrackerman.com/2014/11/28/gigantopithecus/… via
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ustralopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived (900K+ years!) and best-known early human species. Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis and arguably the most famous of all early human individuals was discovered #OTD in 1974. http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/australopithecus-afarensis…
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We are a species with no respect for our fellow mammals
Great apes probably smarter than Australopithecus species
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Comment by Mrs.B on November 13, 2019 at 7:07pm
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Wow!
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Mystery resolved: ancient proteins extracted from a 1.9 Ma old specimen prove Gigantopithecus (a huge Pleistocene ape still around 300 ka ago in southeast Asia) was a sister group of the Orang-Outans. Congrats to the team
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1728-8…
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More:
Rethinking the revolution
It does seem that the “human revolution” that made us modern never was – archaeological evidence for modern behaviours arose much earlier, starting in groups that predated our own species. Every criterion that has historically been used to differentiate modern humans from archaic humans – culture, art, treatment of the dead, ornamentation and abstract symbolism – has much older examples.
What remains to be understood, however, is the relationship between complex behaviours and hominin species from 500,000 years to 160,000 years ago when many species of hominins (not just modern humans) inhabited the African landscape. Gradual complex change is more difficult to interpret than revolution
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The revolution that wasn’t: African tools push back the origins of human technological innovation https://theconversation.com/the-revolution-that-wasnt-african-tools-push-back-the-origins-of-human-technological-innovation-93231…
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