Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA11407 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:02:39 GMT Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:26:17 +0530 (IST) From: Dr Able Lawrence <able@sgpgi.ac.in> To: memetics list <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Evolution of ontogeny In-Reply-To: <20010205133539.AAA25125@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102061320260.14562-100000@sushrut.sgpgi.ac.in> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
We havnt indeed changed in the last 50,000 years. If you consider art as
the high point of culture it is pertinent to remember Pablo Picasso who
once commended after visiting an old cave that we havnt invented anything
new.
The real advances that we have gained in recent history is in
`information technology` in its broadest sense. ie. Techniques for
transmitting recording and disseminating information. Our inventions
starting with the oral traditions of the great epics to writing have freed
our human intellect from its limitations in treansmitting and information.
Memes have also taken advantage of these and dissemination of ideas and
culture got freed from human contact. Now with internet and multimedia
things have reached a totally new stage.
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> On 02/04/01 21:13, Lawrence DeBivort said this-
>
> >And we have had no evidence so far that the human being has evolved over
> >the last 50 or so millennia....
> >
> >But lots and lots of history to mandate that we haven't.
> >
> >LdB:
> >Can you say more about what you mean here? Thanks
>
> The physical being that is the human ain't changed, to my knowledge,
> sparse as it is. And the historical record would indicate that behaviors
> and societies haven't changed, either.
>
> _Do_ we have any evidence that homo sapiens sapiens has evolved over the
> last 50 millennia?
>
> - Wade
>
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