Human Evolution
Essays

Marx and Engels stated, "The class, which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at…

This essay demonstrates the psychological and behavioral factors influencing violent crowds. Firstly, the anonymity offered by a crowd frees people to act unethically, thus increasing the likelihood of violence. Secondly, the human tendency to "flock" means that people will imitate their neighbors, such that relatively localized violent behavior will quickly spread throughout a crowd.

Approximately 4000 B.C., on the flood plain of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Sumerians emerged, ruled by a priesthood with communities established around a temple (Watkins). David Fromkin, professor at Boston…

THE MOTIVATION for STUDYING RELIGION Introduction:

In the early days of Ufology, researchers appeared too eager to verify sightings, which they then interpreted as evidence of 'nuts and bolts' spacecraft piloted by intelligent EBEs. Like numerous deities and other extraterrestrial visitors, EBEs are generally held to be concerned about human conduct. This concern was widely reported in the spate of UFO sightings after the Second World War and the beginnings of the nuclear age. Sensationalist reports merging with Hollywood fantasy led to a distancing of orthodox science from Ufology. Explanations offered by Ufologists frequently ignored Occam's razor, which is a rule against multiplying entities or - in general terms - a rule which says don't involve extraordinary hypotheses until the ordinary ones have been eliminated. The apparent resistance to falsification also contributed to Ufology's lack of credibility. However, modern Ufologists, such as Jenny Randles and Paul Fuller of the British Unidentified Flying Object Research Association (BUFORA), are strict adherents to Popperian-inspired scientific methodology, enthusiastically seeking to falsify EBE explanations and providing explanations which are acceptable to orthodox scientific opinion. In this respect the modern Ufologist is a debunker rather than a myth-spinning believer. Explanations in terms of atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations or hoaxes are generally expected from BUFORA publications. Over the years the BUFORA standpoint has been vindicated. So much 'confirmatory' evidence has been demonstrably unreliable. Photographs, which were once considered as hard evidence, are now held to have zero credibility because of the likelihood of fakes. With the advent of sophisticated image-manipulation computers whose work is undetectable, photographs unsupported by other reliable confirmatory evidence are unacceptable. Eye witness reports are also problematic as they are frequently influenced by psychological and cultural factors.

Perhaps most significantly among thinkers on the subject of 'natural selection', Darwin's seminal works touched inherently upon so many disciplines as to bear applicable interpretations in nearly any context.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: What Really Happened?

The discovery of Mirror neurons has led to new theories in understanding the development of human social cognition, empathy, imitative skills, learning skills, etc. Mirror neurons are very important and unique neuronic…

In today's global business environment, strategy and change necessarily go hand in hand. It is impossible to operate in a business environment without taking into account the dynamics of change.

HUMAN SEXUAL EVOLUTION and FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE Introduction - Modern Female Reproductive Choice and Evolutionary Perspective