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Humans in the Making


Humans in the Making

In the Beginning was Technique
1. Aufl.

von: Michel J. F. Dubois

139,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 02.11.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781119788478
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 272

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The human specificity can be described by verticality/bipedalism, technique use, articulated language, high cognitive capacities, complex society at three levels: body, mind, social. In this book, is proposed an evolutionary process that make better understand how such humanity could have emerged in the long time (more than 6 million years). The process is based on a very early necessity to use technic for surviving correlated with neoteny which impulsed a darwinian evolutionary process, with four distinguished punctuation described as neotenizations.
<p>Introduction ix</p> <p><b>Part 1. Phylogenetics of the Emergence of Humans </b><b>1</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 1. The Long and Slow Emergence of Humans </b><b>3</b></p> <p>1.1. The difficulty of thinking about the beginning of the human being 3</p> <p>1.2. The current challenge of human construction 7</p> <p><b>Chapter 2. Technique and Becoming Human </b><b>9</b></p> <p>2.1. A general definition of technique 9</p> <p>2.2. Awareness and use of techniques 13</p> <p>2.3. Technical posture in human phylogenesis 14</p> <p><b>Chapter 3. Ethology: Technique and the Frog </b><b>17</b></p> <p>3.1. The Goliath frog: a technician frog 17</p> <p>3.2. Causes for the Goliath frog’s gigantic size 18</p> <p><b>Chapter 4. Neoteny: From Concept to Grand Narrative </b><b>19</b></p> <p>4.1. Sources of the concept of neoteny in biology 19</p> <p>4.2. Applying the concept of neoteny to the human being 20</p> <p>4.3. Appropriation of the concept of neo-neoteny by the humanities 22</p> <p>4.4. Neotenization: a “grand narrative” of the emergence of the human being 24</p> <p><b>Chapter 5. Issues of Neoteny and Technique </b><b>27</b></p> <p>5.1. A very old conception of human “disabilities” 27</p> <p>5.2. The equipped human and neotenic human: two unrelated concepts 28</p> <p>5.3. The philosophy of technique: a recent discipline 30</p> <p><b>Chapter 6. Neoteny and Fetal Consciousness </b><b>33</b></p> <p>6.1. Humans before birth 33</p> <p>6.2. Humanity of the baby at birth 35</p> <p>6.3. Ancient protection of the human baby at birth 36</p> <p><b>Chapter 7. Inversion of the Analysis: The Lamarckian Bias </b><b>39</b></p> <p>7.1. The ambiguous concept of adaptation 39</p> <p>7.2. The uselessness of adaptation with the concept of natural selection 41</p> <p>7.3. The use of a tool: a selective system 43</p> <p>7.4. From tool-based technique to body-based technique 44</p> <p>7.5. New evolutionary narratives 46</p> <p><b>Chapter 8. Animal Behavior: Hermit Crabs and Their Shells </b><b>51</b></p> <p>8.1. The hermit crab: a strange crustacean 51</p> <p>8.2. The hermit crab: an oblivious technician? 52</p> <p><b>Chapter 9. Prejudice About the Priority of Values </b><b>55</b></p> <p>9.1. The human sense of morality: an exception? 55</p> <p>9.2. Prioritizing cognitive ability in human characteristics 56</p> <p>9.3. Role of technique in the emergence of language 58</p> <p><b>Chapter 10. The First Phase of the Hominization Process </b><b>61</b></p> <p>10.1. The conditions of access to humans through technique 61</p> <p>10.2. Verticality as the first pre-human technical experience 66</p> <p>10.3. The consequences of verticality 78</p> <p><b>Chapter 11. Towards the Verticalization of the Genus <i>Homo </i></b><b>83</b></p> <p>11.1. Aging of technical achievements 83</p> <p>11.2. Phylogenesis of characteristics and lineages 88</p> <p>11.3. From Australopithecus to the genus <i>Homo</i>: the selection of technicality 94</p> <p><b>Chapter 12. Technical Evolution and Neoteny of the Genus <i>Homo </i></b><b>101</b></p> <p>12.1. <i>Homo habilis</i>: a new bushy development? 101</p> <p>12.2. <i>Homo erectus</i>, the advent of a technical humanity 106</p> <p>12.3. <i>Homo sapiens</i>, the advent of inner life and the imaginary 113</p> <p><b>Part 2. Technique and Human Ontology </b><b>127</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 13. Technique as the Foundation of the Human Being </b><b>129</b></p> <p>13.1. A look back at stone-knapping: the contribution of neuroscience 129</p> <p>13.2. Explaining humans through technique: a conceptual error 132</p> <p>13.3. Mental exaptation as a norm of human development 136</p> <p>13.4. The relationship between bodily technique and tool technique 139</p> <p>13.5. Variability of technical capabilities 145</p> <p><b>Chapter 14. The Domestication of the Wolf: A Decisive Advantage? </b><b>149</b></p> <p>14.1. The oldest domestication 149</p> <p>14.2. The co-evolution of humans and dogs 150</p> <p>14.3. The strength of the association between humans and dogs 154</p> <p><b>Chapter 15. Reforming Our Thinking About Humans? </b><b>157</b></p> <p>15.1. The human characteristic: a search without a future? 157</p> <p>15.2. The major innovation in body techniques 159</p> <p>15.3. Technique and the game: a fundamental intertwining factor 163</p> <p>15.4. New accounts of the emergence of culture 165</p> <p>15.5. The influence of techniques on evolutionary processes 169</p> <p>15.6. The relationship between technical behavior and biological evolution 174</p> <p>15.7. The selection of neoteny 180</p> <p>15.8. Towards the human being: convergences and co-evolutions 187</p> <p>15.9. <i>Homo sapiens</i>, a convergence of multiple capacities 191</p> <p>15.10. The ultimate technical step towards the human: mental technique 196</p> <p>15.11. The technical inscription of the mind 204</p> <p>15.12. The construction of thought 205</p> <p><b>Chapter 16. Emergence, Then Global Expansion </b><b>207</b></p> <p>16.1. Rapid global development 207</p> <p>16.2. Great linguistic diversification 208</p> <p>16.3. Co-evolution of cultures, languages and techniques 208</p> <p>16.4. The anthropization of the planet 209</p> <p><b>Chapter 17. The Myth of the Golden Age </b><b>211</b></p> <p>17.1. The Golden Age in ancient myths 211</p> <p>17.2. The Golden Age of modern thinkers 213</p> <p>17.3. Believing in a golden age: a cognitive bias? 214</p> <p>Conclusion 217</p> <p>References 225</p> <p>Index 243</p>
Michel J. F. Dubois: Referent expert in agriculture sciences in UniLaSalle polytechnic institute; associate scientist at LIED, Paris Diderot (Paris VII); President of Ingenium, french net of scientists in human sciences affiliated in higher engineer training institutions.

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