On the Evolution of Humans

Ancient bones are somewhat like wind vanes that show from which direction a particular hypothesis breezes across the fossil field. If a paradigm is useful one should be able to predict what will be found at the end of the projected course. This means that one can put a general evolutionary hypothesis like a grid over the pattern of evidence and see how fossils and expectations match. In the standard model predictions are not possible because the phenotype lattice radiates from one spot (the common ancestor) with every beam studded with chance-initiated branch points that give rise to unpredictable patterns.1 By rules of the Genomic Potential Hypothesis the future position of a species in the hierarchy of taxa is, in principle, predictable. The discussion of our own past will reflect this fundamental change in philosophy. 

The experts think of slow transitions but their own evidence says replacements. The analysis of a nearly complete skeleton found in the Afar Valley of Ethiopia told Johanson and his colleague that A. afarensis was a true upright walker with a brain about as large as that of a chimpanzee.4 More than 10 years after this sensational 

The Genomic Potential Hypothesis A Chemist s View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life, by Christian Schwabe. 2001 Eurekah.com 

This result was baffling since an almost contemporary of H. habilis, the 1.6 million-year-old nearly complete skeleton of the 5 4 tall Turkana boy, had been found who was a member of a species called H. erectus This species had modern body proportions and significant mental capacity as signified by the fine Acheulean tools found near the fossils.5 A new, more advanced species had appeared from nowhere Johanson made the following revealing statement  

Secondary ova, those that were produced by a finished prehistoric animal, have been found frequently, and when dinosaur eggs revealed the fully formed embryo there was no doubt about the saurian way of reproduction.15 Precambrian eggs have been found16 but never one of the primary eggs, which must have been there en mass for each species a few thousand years before the entry of a species into the fossil record. Until now, there was no good reason to look for them and, of course, there is no handbook for identification purposes. Certainly the avalanche of exquisite fossils from China, which is pushing the age of vertebrates deeper into the Cambrian, will provide an excellent chance to find some of the pro-forms postulated by the Genomic Potential Hypothesis.17 

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This article reviews various contraceptive methods, with particular emphasis on the evolution of the chemical methods used in current hormonal contraceptives and contragestational products, and describes research efforts directed toward the development of new approaches to control human fertihty. 

Dover, G. 2 000. Dear Mr Darwin Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature. Weidenfeld Nicholson, London. 

The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life and ultimately led to the evolution of human society. This most sophisticated form of organized life on earth is still in the trial-and-error phase of its development. It seeks to outgrow the myths-directed era of its history and arrive at its final state, the rationally directed human society. 

I ARC Monographs on the Evolution of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans. A Supplement Chemicals, Groups of Chemicals and Industrial Processes Associated with Cancer in Humans. /ARC, Lyon, France (1979). 

The best way to motivate the future Synectors is to teach them about human and engineering creativity and its impact on the evolution of our civilization, on individual societies, and on the engineering profession. It must become clear that engineering creativity is the driving force behind progress in modern societies and the key to survival of nations in the international industrial competition. Also, it is the passport to personal fame and fortune for engineers who become inventors. 

Experience and accident statistics alike demonstrate that, apart from accidents within technical installations, losses affecting human beings and the environment may occur outside the technical installation itself. There may be interrelationships between accident and environmental strain, The effect of an accident in a technical installation becomes obvious the moment toxic or flammable substances spread in the air, the water, or on the ground, or whenever pressure waves propagate in the air or in the ground and lead to environmental damage. The causes, e,g., may be mechanical damage to machinery, explosions, or fires. The influence of environmental stress on the evolution of the accident, on the other hand, is... 

Although this book is an outgrowth of these recent developments, I hope that it will also suggest new directions for historical economists. Most of our efforts to understand the evolution of human health and welfare have been focused on biological phenomena, such as variation in the infectious disease environment and improvements in nutrition. 

Evolution of air traffic has to be anticipated, as well as the evolution of infrastructure such as the introduction of dam equipment on an undammed river or highway construction in valleys, which then leads to modification of the flooding parameter. An anticipation of the evolution of human activity should also be taken into account in the design parameters. 

Honkakoski, P. Negishi, M. (2000). Regulation of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes by nuclear receptors. BiochemicalJoumal, 347, 321-337. lARC (1983). Polynuclear aromatic coumpounds, part 1 chemical, environmental and experimental data, in lARC, Monographs on the Evolution of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, lARC Press, Lyon, 1983,32. 

This is my thesis, thereby throwing new light on the role of serendipity It drives the revolutionary mutations in science, like the errors in DNA reproduction - and it thereby also triggers the mutational advances in the evolution of human society. 

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