W \M.vO Margaret Mead Warfare: An Invention — Not a Biological Necessity (1940) IN 1969‚ TIME MAGAZINE named anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) the "Mother of the World." This title stemmed in part from Mead’s work with young girls in various cultures around the world‚ but it also recognized the moral and intellectual status that she earned during her fifty-year career as the world’s most famous and respected anthropologist. Mead was born in Philadelphia in 1901. She earned a
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ARE WE STILL EVOLVING? Are We Still Evolving? Kenneth Posley ITT-Technical Institute Are We Still Evolving? The answer to the question at hand is some-what debatable among certain communities and also a bit perplexing to the general population. Undoubtedly we are‚ with the world’s population at 7 billion people we are apparently evolving because we are still reproducing and at an alarming rate. But something incredibly weird has happened to human evolution. Only 0.1% of the human genome
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“Home Floresiensis - The Hobbit” Homo floresiensis (“Man of Flores”) is the name for a possible new species in the genus Homo‚ remarkable for its small body‚ small brain‚ and survival until relatively recent times (www.en.wikipedia.org). Anthropologists Peter Brown of University of New England in South Wales‚ Australia‚ Michael Morwood and their colleagues have argued that a variety of features‚ both primitive and derived‚ identified LB1 (the first skeleton found in cave of Liang Bua) is
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pupulace utilized fire‚ along with stone tools and weapons. One of the most astonishing facts is that these people‚ who would have a stature close to a three year-old child‚ worked together and planned jointly in order to hunt big-game animals like the pygmy Stegodon‚ which could weigh up to a thousand kilograms. Although they had brains about the size of grapefruits with capacities around 400cc; compared to the average cranial capacity of modern humans‚ 1350cc; this joint communication and planning indicates
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Summary of Howard Zinn’s “Violence and Human Nature” In Howard Zinn’s article “Violence and Human Nature” Zinn investigates the belief that violence is an innate trait of human beings. In the end he comes to a conclusion that not all humans are born with a drive to be violent‚ but instead mainly influenced by that person’s natural surroundings and environments. In section one of Zinn’s article‚ he explains three events in which he has experienced which have ultimately shaped his perception of
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In her paper‚ War: An Invention- Not a Biological Necessity‚ Margaret Mead says that " warfare‚ by which I mean organized conflict between two groups as groups‚ in which each group puts an army (even if the army is only fifteen Pygmies) in the field to fight and kill‚ if possible‚ some of the members of the army of the other group- that warfare of this sort is an invention like any other of the inventions in the terms of which we order our lives‚ such as writing‚ marriage‚ cooking our food instead
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Study of Perception as viewed by William James. Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us‚ another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.” (James‚ 1890). With regard to your coverage of perception in this module‚ outline the ideas and thinking behind this statement. In most dictionaries perception is more or less described as “the process by which an organism detects and interprets information from the external world by
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- Northern Blue-tongued Skink (Tiliqua scincoides intermedia) - Western blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua occipitalis) - Central blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua multifasciata) - Blotched Blue-tongue (Tiliqua nigrolutea) - Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa) - Pygmy Blue-tongue Skink (Tiliqua adelaidensis) Blue-tongue Lizards are found throughout most of Australia. Blue-tongues usually live in open country with lots of cover such as tall grasses‚ litter and low shrubs. They shelter at night among these covers
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their way to the Philippine Islands. Aeta and Agta tribes These people‚ ancestors‚ continue to be primarily hunters and food gatherers‚ much as their ancestors were thousands of years ago. They are one of the world‘s few remaining populations of Pygmies‚ who are characterized by shorter-than-averageheight. The Spanish colonizers of the 16th century called them Negritos‚ a term that isstill widely used today. About 3000 B.C. People of Malay and Indonesian descent‚ who now make up the majority of
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