It has proved to be a difficult endeavor to pin-down specific human universals. Exceptions appear to be the rule. Nonetheless, although the specifics vary, in broad terms it can safely be claimed that humans are universally social, symbolic, and ritualistic. Humans across time and space have and continue to be bound in webs of relationships… Continue reading Back Scratchers
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Similarities in Dissimilars
The name Homo sapiens was applied by the 18th-century taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus in 1758. Sapien - the wise - suggests that the defining attribute of our species is a distinct and unparalleled cognition. We think differently from all other animals, and we are able to share those thoughts with one another in ways that are… Continue reading Similarities in Dissimilars
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