Eonix Papers

Evolution’s revolution
Mike Belbin looks at the emergence of human culture and the vital role of symbolism
Also check out:
http://darwiniana.com/2009/07/02/the-left-anwil…uage-evolutionthe-left-anwilson-and-language-evolution/
“Do materialists really think that language just ‘evolved’, like finches’ beaks …?” – AN Wilson, ‘Why I believe again’ New Statesman April 6 2009
“We are annoying to the leopard because our ancestor stole fire from theirs” – South [...]

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Ivory Venus Figurine From The Swabian Jura Rewrites Prehistory
ScienceDaily (May 14, 2009) — The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a human, and one of the [...]

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Study Reveals Source of Human Evolution, African Genetics

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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‘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

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A selection from WHEE that isn’t online: Huxley and evolution #2

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Dragonslayer: reference to the eonic evolution of literatures in the eonic sequence, re: How To Kill A Dragon, by Clavert Watkins.

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An important article on a new discovery about evolution: Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
Discussed here at Darwiniana:
The eonic effect, control systems, evolutionary directionality
This remarkable article, Evolutionary control systems, is an opportunity to consider, or reconsider the issues of evolution, or micro/macro evolution in the light of control theory. This time [...]

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Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
by Kitta MacPherson · Posted November 10, 2008; 10:00 a.m.
A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.

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The Politics Of Evolution

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Some recent posts at Darwiniana,

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Comment at Alternet
Can liberals understand religion?
Posted by: nemonemini on Sep 16, 2008 4:42 AM
This article has too much interesting material for glib comments, and asks some very good questions, but why not consider some radical perspectives on the issue: can the scientific world view resolve the enigma of morality? I fear not, [...]

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New files at eonic-effect.net, listed on:
Eonix Papers static files

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The Darwin debate is one of the most persistent of contemporary culture. And Darwin’s theory of evolution is one of the most heavily [...]

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Kant’s Challenge, the blog, has two selections form World History And The Eonic Effect, on the resolution seen in the eonic effect of Kant’s question, in his essay on history:
Kant’s Challenge
The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix

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Stuart Newman on evolution

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The index files have been shifted around, and history and evolution.com now has a blogbook, Descent of Man Revisited.

Just follow the links, the changes will emerge as you navigate the site.

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An archive file from History and Evolution.com
The Darwin debate is one of the most persistent of contemporary culture. And Darwin’s theory of evolution is one of the most heavily [...]

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