PDF-(EBOOK)-The Runaway Brain: The Evolution Of Human Uniqueness

The human brain is astonishingly different from the brain of any other animal Written like a detective story this book brings together the wealth of new research from neurobiology genetics and paleontology to explain the runaway evolution of the human brain Illus. Margarita Bracamonte, Ph.D. Northland Community & Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN. I have edited Dr. . Bracamonte’s. presentation to better fit our Cameron Human Anatomy course.. Adapted from https. ://sites.google.com/site/highlandhsp3m/unit-1-what-makes-us-human. What does being human mean to you?. What distinguishes humans from animals?. Take a moment an think. REALLY think.. Assessment Statements. Outline. . the method for dating rocks and fossils using radioisotopes, with references to . 14. C and . 40. K.. Define half-life. Deduce the approximate age of materials based on a simple decay curve for a radioisotope.. 2 ABSTRACT The human brain continually generates electrical potentials representing neural communication. These potentials can be measured at the scalp, and constitute the electroencephalogram (EEG). Psychology. What is evolutionary psychology?. It focuses on how human beings came to be who we are today. Tooby. . and . Cosmides. (1992) define evolutionary psychology as informed by the fact that the inherited structure of the human mind is the product of evolutionary processes (!). Sushrut Thorat | Manasvita Vashisth. What is Abstraction?. Abstraction is the process of taking away or removing characteristics from something to reduce it to some set of essential characteristics. .. Margarita Bracamonte, Ph.D. Northland Community & Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN. I have edited Dr. . Bracamonte’s. presentation to better fit our Cameron Human Anatomy course.. (Dunbar . Ch. 2). Biologists often commented on behavior and adaptation. Physical traits. Altruism (Group selection). Natural Selection. Focuses on . individual. survival. According to Darwin, noble behavior is a death sentence (for the genes). Jordan Zlatev. Lecture 5. Body and brain for language. 1. Projects. Spell out your main question(s). Make sure that it is relevant to language origins!. Define your main terms: “language”, “gesture”, “cognition”, “adaptation”, “culture” – at least provisionally. Humans show similarities with ‘apes’ (gibbons, orang, gorilla, chimps). . shared derived traits. : large brain, no tail, more upright posture. other Old World monkeys. ‘apes’ and humans. increased brain size. Chapters 34, 41, and 44. Go back! We f*#ked everything up. Humans and Apes. Homo sapiens . characteristics. Bipedal. Larger brains. Language. Symbolic thought. Artistic expression. Use complex tools. Lecture 5. Body and brain for language. 1. Projects. Spell out your main question(s). Make sure that it is relevant to language origins!. Define your main terms: “language”, “gesture”, “cognition”, “adaptation”, “culture” – at least provisionally. This interdisciplinary book interprets early human evolution in the context of the local ecology and specific habitats. It assesses carefully the possible role of climate change in driving early human evolution. Bringing an ecological and biogeographic perspective to recent fossil finds, the book provides a new synthesis of ideas on hominid evolution. It will be a valuable resource for researchers in physical, biological, or paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology or biogeography. In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors, and the significance of our knowledge. A worldwide tour of discovery, Tattersall takes the reader from 30,000-year-old cave paintings in France and anthropological digs in Africa, to examining human behavior in a New York restaurant. And by offering wisdom gleaned from fossil remains, primate behavior, prehistoric art, and archaeology, Tattersall presents a stunning picture of where humankind evolved, how Darwin\'s theories have changed, and what we reliably know about modern-day human\'s capacity for love, language, and thought. Widely praised in the media, and an Amazon.com Top-10 bestseller, Becoming Human is an amazing trip into the past and into the future.