Browse 297 quotes about Homo Sapiens.
“Las investigaciones feministas han sido decisivas para dejar al descubierto el horror de la violación desde el punto de vida de la víctima.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“Como en el resto de las tendencias destructivas, el hecho de que el empleo del maltrato tenga una lógicas adaptativa subyacente no significa que debamos aceptarlo, desearlo o descuidar su erradicación. Por el contrario, una mayor comprensión de la lógica que subyace a tales tácticas y de los contextos en que se producen puede llevar a métodos más eficaces para reducirlas o eliminarlas.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“El hombre descalifica el aspecto de la mujer para disminuir la percepción femenina de su capacidad de atracción, asegurándose un equilibrio de poder más favorable en la relación.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“La convergencia de intereses durante toda la vida de dos personas que no comparten los genes es tal vez la hazaña más sobresaliente de la historia evolutiva humana.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“Del mismo modo que hemos desarrollado mecanismos que nos hacen entrar en conflicto, hemos desarrollado otros que nos permiten vivir en armonía con el otro sexo.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“Para sobrevivir necesitamos comer, hacer el amor y criar. La naturaleza ha hecho que todas estas actividades nos resulten placenteras, de modo que nos entregamos a ellas con facilidad y de manera voluntaria.”
Source: Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
“...la verdad es que nos preocupamos mucho por lo que otros piensan de nosotros. Las únicas personas que se sabe que no tienen un sociómetro son los psicópatas.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“La aparición del pensamiento simbólico marca una de las etapas fundamentales de la evolución humana.”
Source: Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
“Thanks to cultural evolution and technological progress, humans have gained unprecedented power to alter their social and physical environment but, in doing so, have also created enormous opportunity for evolutionary mismatch.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Evolutionary mismatch may occur when an evolved mechanism encounters a novel environmental context that falls outside of the range that was recently encountered over its evolutionary history (the EEA or environment of evolutionary adaptation). In the new context, a functional mechanism can give rise to maladaptive outcomes or even induce dysfunctions in other mechanisms.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“In modern societies, for example, the media expose people to a relentless stream of images of unrealistically attractive "competitors" -an artificial, evolutionarily novel kind of social stimulus. It has been hypothesized that such exposure hyperactivates the evolved mechanisms that regulate female competition for attractiveness and status, thus contributing to the rising incidence of eating disorders.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“For instance, people who form early representations of the world as dangerous or uncontrollable may become anxious and start avoiding situations that they perceive as threatening. Avoidance is usually an adaptive response to danger; in this case, however, it prevents anxious individuals from learning that the environment is actually safer than they believe, thus locking them in a state of exaggerated anxiety. Even if such catastrophic failures of learning mechanisms are statistically rare, they can be highly maladaptive for the individuals who experience them.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“Defensive mechanisms can make two symmetric kinds of mistakes: they can fail to activate in the presence of a threat (false negatives) or become activated when no threat is present (false positives). Even when defenses are functional and optimally calibrated, errors cannot be completely avoided; given the tradeoffs between the costs of different types of errors, the smoke detector principle suggests that defensive systems should typically evolve to commit more false positives than false negatives.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
“...los grupos crean seres sobrenaturales no para explicar el universo, sino para poner orden en sus sociedades.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.”
Source: Extinction
“Research from Baton and Konner in 1985 and Cordain et al. in 2000 estimated that about 65 per cent of the diets of pre-agricultural Palaeolithic humans may still have come from plants – far more than only your recommended five fruit and veg a day, I would say. Interestingly, anatomically modern humans are believed to have more copies of the starch-digesting genes than the Neanderthals and the Denisovans (another extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle palaeolithic), suggesting that the ability to digest starch has been a continuous driver through human evolution as much as walking upright, having big brains and articulate speech - perhaps being a baker may be the oldest profession after all.”
Source: Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World
“We are now accelerating towards probably the most important moment in the entire history of Earth, comparable in significance only to the emergence of life itself on this planet -- the Technological Singularity, Intelligence Supernova, the Omega Point of Homo sapiens, progressively morphing into one Global Mind. This 'cosmic event' would mark the end of human era, as we are to inexorably transcend our animal biology, and even more importantly, we are to transcend our limited dimensionality. History is, after all, 'a shockwave of eschatology' in the words of McKenna.”
Source: The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence
“Identification of environments throughout human history that have aided parasite transmission, as well as social or cultural practices that have contributed to infections, can help inform approaches that could be taken to mitigate infections today.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“Tan solo el ser humano podía concebir el potro de torturas, la doncella de hierro y el aplastapulgares. Tan solo el ser humano hará sufrir únicamente por el gusto de hacer sufrir. Esta es la mejor definición del mal que he sido capaz de formular. Los animales son incapaces de hacer algo así, pero los humanos, con sus atroces capacidades de semidioses, sí que pueden.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“En resumen, la mayoría de los hombres -sin religión- comparten aún pseudo religiones y mitologías degradadas. Cosa que en nada nos asombra, desde el momento en que el hombre profano es el descendiente del homo religiosus y no puede anular su propia historia, es decir, los comportamientos de sus antepasados religiosos, que lo han constituido tal como es hoy día.”
Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“Food processors, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and clothes-washing machines have substancially lessened the physical activity required to cook and clean. Air conditioners and central heating have decreased how much energy our bodies spend to maintain a stable body temperature. Countless other devices, such as electric can openers, remote controls, electric razors and suitcases on wheels, have reduced, calorie by calorie, the amount of energy we expend to exist.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“It isn’t normal to live on milk and cream and cheese and ice cream and eggs and chocolate and wheat flour and alcohol. No! Man is a hunter. Most of the wheat flour should be fed to the animals. Let them go through the arduous labor of converting fodder into meat fat. And then eat the animal. That is the smart thing to do.”
Source: Strong Medicine
“Let the future generations not laugh at us for our stupidity and lack of intelligence. We live to impress others. We lead a lifestyle to show others that we are higher up than them. We have devastated planet Earth's climate and eco-system. We fight with each other for a false ego and pride.”
“Homo sapiens have explored many ages: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and, as of late, the Industrial Age, of which we have only tried for a couple hundred years. Before we seemingly dive headfirst into a Digital, Automated or Artificial Age, we are in desperate need of an Age of Reflection.”
Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future
“Todo ser humano vivo es una historia de triunfo evolutivo.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“Es apasionante darnos cuenta de que, al igual que nosotros, las estrellas, las galaxias y el mismo universo son dinámicos y cambiantes, y evolucionan a su propio ritmo y manera, y de que la mente humana sea capaz, desde su limitado espacio y durante su corto transcurso, de preguntarle y arrancarle al universo un puñado de sus más íntimos secretos.”
Source: Fronteras del universo
“Por una curiosa paradoja, el hombre, este animal que ha sublimado y trascendido magníficamente la muerte, es el que masacra con el más perfecto refinamiento y la más cruel despreocupación a las especies vivientes y a la suya propia.”
Source: Antropologia de la muerte
“Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.”
Source: DNA: The Secret of Life
“La naturaleza ordenó esos átomos de manera maravillosa en moléculas y células, creando finalmente un prodigio: el hombre, un ser capaz de plantearse la pregunta de cuál es su lugar en el Universo.”
Source: Cuásares: En los confines del Universo
“We are failing as one human race. Nothing seems to justify our so called I.Q levels. We are bent on annihilating the world.”
“Nothing over the last few million years of human history has changed human energetics as much as the low cost of working at a desk using machines run by electric power.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“One of the ironies of industrialization is that its spread across the globe has required more people to spend more time sitting.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“In short, the Industrial Revolution was actually a combination of technological, economical, scientific and social transformations that rapidly and radically altered the course of history and reconfigured the face of the planet in less than ten generations -a true blink of an eye by the standards of evolutionary time.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“The bottom line, is that fat is vital for all species, but specially for humans.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“A species equipped with vengeance and gratitude responses can support larger and more cooperative social groups because the payoff to cheaters is reduced by the costs they bear in making enemies.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Vengeful and grateful feelings appear to have evolved precisely because they are such useful tools for helping individuals create cooperative relationships, thereby reaping the gains from non-zero-zum games.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Vengeful and grateful feelings appear to have evolved precisely because they are such useful tools for helping individuals create cooperative relationships, thereby reaping the gains from non-zero-sum games.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Humans became able to move much more freely through the landscape because their support networks were more stable over time. These supportive relations between groups made it possible for sapiens to colonize forbidding environments with very limited foods supplies, supporting only very small residential groups. A band of a family or two would not be stable over the long term, without support from a wider network. While small groups can penetrate harsher environments, they need social risk management. They need to be able to reconnect at times of need.”
Source: From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
“The elaborated kinship systems of ethnographic report impose steep linguistic demands. These systems feature a small set of basic kin terms: “mother” and (typically) “father”, “husband”, “wife”.”
Source: From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
“Our deep-time ancestors very likely had the genetic resources needed for formal quantitative reasoning, but without the cultural invention of numerals and a umber line, those resources could not be exploited. The same may be true of language. The central role of cultural learning in the construction and transmission of language (qua social phenomenon) is enough to show that the use of language depends on cultural scaffolds, not just appropriate genetic potential.”
Source: From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
“Ha entrado en escena el Homo sedentarius. Ahora es el alimento el que migra hacia nosotros, junto con artículos de lujo y otros bienes de consumo que no existieron durante la mayor parte de la historia humana.”
Source: The World Without Us
“Nosotros evolucionamos a partir de comedores de fruta arborícolas - de ahí nuestros ojos frontales, nuestra visión de color y nuestras manos prensoras-, pero nuestro tamaño y nuestras aptitudes especiales nos confieren un porte depredador. Probablemente es por esto por lo que nos llevamos tan bien con nuestras mascotas favoritas, que son dos carnívoros peludos.”
Source: Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
“Quienes no se emparejan no se convierten en antepasados. Cada ser humano, por lo tanto, desciende de una línea larga e ininterrumpida de otros que se emparejaron con éxito a lo largo de millones de años. Si uno de nuestros antepasados no hubiera conseguido salvar los complejos obstáculos que supone el emparejamiento, no estaríamos vivos para reflexionar sobre tales hechos improbables.”
Source: The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
“El intelecto humano lo debe esencialmente todo a los millones de años que nuestros antecesores pasaron en solitario colgados de los árboles.”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Just as not requiring a child to reason critically will stunt her intellect, not stressing a child's bones, muscles and immune systems will fail to match these organ's capacities to their demands.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“Человек - это промежуточное звено эволюции, необходимое для создания венца творения пpиpоды - рюмки коньяка и дольки лимона.”
Source: Понедельник начинается в субботу
“La auténtica empatía humana no se centra en uno mismo, sino que se orienta en el otro.”
Source: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
“En vez de convertir a la humanidad en la medida de todas las cosas, tenemos que evaluar a las otras especies por lo que son ellas mismas. Al hacerlo, estoy seguro de que descubriremos muchos pozos mágicos, incluyendo algunos que por ahora están más allá de nuestra imaginación.”
Source: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
“We are failing as one human race. Nothing seems to justify our so called I.Q levels. We are bent upon annihilating the world.”
“The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves”. Konrad Lorenz
“Nothing exists except atoms and space; everything else is opinion”. Democritus of Abdera
“The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity”. Edward de Bono.”
Source: Silbury Dawning: The Alien Visitor Gene Theory 3rd Edition