Tag: human beings
Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham
Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received.
No, We Are Not “Beasts”
Maxim Loskutoff recounts the time he and his girlfriend were threatened by a grizzly bear while hiking in Montana.
Beating the Summer Heat — Thanks to Human Exceptionalism
It’s hot out. Be glad that you’re a human being, and not some other kind of mammal.
Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”
No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers.
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”