What it means to be human?
What it means to be human?
Just a few small steps?
Or worlds apart?
Or worlds apart?
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May,
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untrimm d;
untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his
shade,
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When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can
see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
The unbridgeable gap
The unbridgeable gap
R.A.SEVCIK AND THE LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTER IN ATLANTA GEORGIA
The symbolic species
The symbolic species
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What it means to be human
What it means to be human
Not a lot
Not a lot
Lots of biology
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All culture no biology
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A lot
A lot
Cognition
Culture
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Evolution and ecology of human cognition: the conditions for being human
conditions for being human
Evolution and ecology of culture: consequences of being human
Mirazon Lahr Humans are unique and completely different
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Humans are unique and completely different
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y
But, the scale of difference is an illusion caused by extinction
illusion caused by extinction
Humans are unique and completely different
p
y
The differences are rooted in evolution and ecology (genes, epigenetics, development and phenotyptypic expression and adaptation), and are dependent upon these
Sustained foetal growth rates
Infancy
Prenatal
Childhood
Conception
Birth
Puberty
Weaning
But, the scale of difference is an illusion caused by extinction
illusion caused by extinction
Adolescence
Senescence
Adulthood
First reproduction
Death
Menopause
Humans are unique and completely different
p
y
The differences are rooted in evolution and ecology (genes, epigenetics, development and phenotyptypic expression and adaptation), and are dependent upon these
Sustained foetal growth rates
Infancy
Prenatal
Childhood
Conception
Birth
Puberty
Weaning
But, the scale of difference is an illusion caused by extinction
illusion caused by extinction
Adolescence
Senescence
Adulthood
First reproduction
Death
Menopause
The causes of human uniqueness are The
causes of human uniqueness are
not unique ‐ culture and cognition are the elephant trunk of humanity