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Humanity’s Next Evolutionary Step: Unlocking Dual Capacity
Read more: Humanity’s Next Evolutionary Step: Unlocking Dual CapacityHumanity, 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. It is the basis of our evolution. Adopting an upright stance or the development of opposing thumbs are both examples of…
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The Role of Society in Human Survival
Read more: The Role of Society in Human SurvivalLife’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 force of our existence. As a species, we, like all species, have…
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How Societal Living Shapes our Evolution
Read more: How Societal Living Shapes our EvolutionOf 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, heating and protection. As a result, we have been better able to…
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Genetic Flaws: Understanding Human Imperfection
Read more: Genetic Flaws: Understanding Human ImperfectionNo 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. Genetic flaws. Some greater than others; some more consequential than others. These flaws matter because they are liabilities on our genetic balance sheet. Whatever genetic appeal we may have, it will always be considered alongside any…
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The Changing Shift in Gender Roles
Read more: The Changing Shift in Gender RolesThroughout Nature and certainly in the case of humanity, males have tended to be the dominant gender – 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. Females, on the other hand, have to make a much greater investment…
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Ensuring Survival Through Collective Strength
Read more: Ensuring Survival Through Collective StrengthWhen it comes to the survival of a species, safeguards must be in place to prevent it from being 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 entity, albeit driven by individual actions. Adaptations take place at the periphery, only properly establishing…
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Our Life’s Performance – A Genetic Review
Read more: Our Life’s Performance – A Genetic ReviewThe results are in. Our individual genetic assessment comes back to us. It doesn’t make for the best of reading. In fact, it’s rather like reliving those school reports we received as children – could do better; if he applied himself more; too easily distracted. It seems our Genetic Priorities have not received the attention they deserve. We have, according to the report, lived a rather wayward…
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Humanity’s Mistaken Persuasion
Read more: Humanity’s Mistaken PersuasionHumanity has an enormous sense of 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 in Nature’s affairs. We are merely a cog in a much greater machine.…
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The Need for Moral Flexibility
Read more: The Need for Moral FlexibilityIf 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 threats to our way of life, as something to be guarded against. And yet when it comes to internal challenges to the customs and operations of society – rioting, criminality and general lawlessness –…