http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html
April 28, 2009
A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown. Recent research [...]
Entries from April 2009
Hobbits
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Evolution
Domestication of the horse
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments
From Science News
Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2009) — Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process of their domestication is not well understood.
In a new study [...]
Tags: History
Theories of modernity
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, on the rise of modernity
Tags: Uncategorized
Indo-European migrations
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Empires of the Silk Road
Interesting book on the Indo-European question, quite apart from its larger history of Central Eurasia.
This issue is important for the study of the eonic sequence, since the appearance of the Indo-Europeans prior to their intersection with the sequence in the Axial Age is essential for understanding the Greeks, Romans, and Indians. [...]
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Shlomo Avineri: Marx and Darwin
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Between ideology and science
By Shlomo Avineri
When “The Origin of Species” was published, Engels wrote Marx with quite a bit of satisfaction about the way it confronted traditional theological views. Marx, however, was much more skeptical, and wrote: “Darwin rediscovered his English society among animals and plants, with its division of labor, competition, the [...]
Tags: Evolution
Evolution in the small, in the large
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Why the eonic model beats out Darwinism (on human evolution)
The problem with Darwin’s theory of natural selection is that it over-focuses attention on the small. What of the possibility of invisible macro factors that stand beyond the action of the small-scale. Everything in the debate suggests something is being missed. But what is that? It [...]
Tags: Evolution
Darwinism and scientism
April 5th, 2009 · No Comments
‘Scientism’ infects Darwinian debates
An unflinching belief that science can explain everything about evolution becomes its own ideology
By Douglas Todd, Vancouver SunApril 4, 2009
Tags: Evolution