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Humanity’s Evolution: Unlocking Dual Capacities
Humanity, like all species, adapts to its environment. If we have the genetic opportunity to make an advantageous adaptation, one that provides some benefit within the prevailing environment, then we will seize that chance. It should be good for us; it should improve our survival prospects. Adopting an upright stance or the development of opposing […]
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The Role of Society in Human Survival
Life’s motivation is survival. Not as individuals – our physical fragility and durability limit that – but as a species. It is our genes that must go on. They are the basis of our being and it is they that have the capacity to survive into the future. For this reason, they are the driving […]
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How Societal Living Shapes our Evolution
Of all the choices humanity could have made, of all the pathways humanity could have chosen, opting for a societal existence as our means to survive was inspired. Most obviously, it has worked – we are still in existence. By living together we have been better able to provide for each other – sustenance, shelter, […]
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Genetic Flaws: Human Imperfection
No one’s perfect; no one can ever be perfect – that’s certainly the case in genetics. This lack of perfection, this inability to achieve perfection, means that we all carry weaknesses or flaws. Some greater than others; some more consequential than others. These flaws matter because they are liabilities on our genetic balance sheet. Whatever […]
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The Shift in Gender Roles
Throughout Nature and certainly in the case of humanity, males have tended to be the dominant sex – not only are they bigger and stronger, but the nature of their reproductive act – their genetic contribution – is rapid-repeating, unlimited and non-committal. It means that they can tender their genes as much as they like. […]
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Ensuring Survival: Collective Strength
When it comes to the survival of a species there needs to be safeguards in place to ensure that it is not adversely affected by the erroneous actions of any of its members. The most important protection for a species is the strength of the collective. In its evolution, a species advances as a single […]
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Our Life’s Performance – A Genetic Review
The results are in. Our personal genetic assessment comes back to us – to what extent have we enhanced our evolutionary well-being. It doesn’t always make for the best of reading. In fact, it can be rather like reliving those school reports we received as a child – could do better; if he applied himself […]
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Humanity’s Mistaken Persuasion
Humanity has such belief in our own self-importance. We like to think of ourselves as being centre stage – life revolves around us. We are Nature’s superior beings – the masters, the leaders, the controllers of this world. But it’s a mistaken outlook. Although we may try to be, we are not the main participant […]
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The Need for Moral Duality
If our sovereignty is threatened by a foreign country we will do everything we can to protect ourselves. We will fight, kill and even die for our country. External challenges are perceived as a threat to our way of life, as something that has to be guarded against. And yet when it comes to internal […]
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