A fossil reported in 1925 revolutionized ideas about the human family tree.
Source: How Australopithecus provided insight into human evolution
Month: October 2019
‘Horrifying’ New Research Shows Rising Sea Levels Could Wipe Out Major Cities, Displace 150 Million People by 2050
“Climate change is shrinking the planet, in the scariest possible way.”
The Anthropocene
Source: The Anthropocene: a short booklet of the core text… – 1848+: The End(s) of History
Models of history
Falling between two stools: religious and secular confusion over history February 11th, 2018 Marxists often don’t get it: you can’t propose an incorrect theory of history and expect people to liste…
Source: Models of history – Darwiniana
“We Have to Move to a Post-Capitalist System”
World-renowned scholar Walden Bello on the financialization of the Chinese economy, the middle-class roots of far-right movements, and the urgent need for a radical alternative to capitalism’s crises.
The revolutionary limits
Our seemingly odd jargon of ‘fourth turning points’ is perhaps not very useful, but the point is that social change is complex, more than economics, and involves an immense complexity of factors. And a revolution gets caught in the dilemma of controlling a given future while promising the equivalent of an open society.
The problem is that revolutions end up in oversimplification, control by a few and a lack of any model of how to create a new society, let alone a socialist one. But the task can be managed if the effort is actually made to do that…The idea that ‘revolution’ will solve everything is misleading.
How Life Blossomed after the | Portside
In 2014, when Ian Miller and Tyler Lyson first visited Corral Bluffs, a fossil site 100 kilometers south of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science where they work, Lyson was not impressed by the few vertebrate fossils he saw. But on a return trip later that year, he split open small boulders called concretions—and found dozens of skulls.
Source: How Life Blossomed after the Dinosaurs Died | Portside
Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals?
Based on research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans.
Humans knew how to master fire earlier than thought
Why does Daniel Adler assume that the Neanderthals are not human? There is no reasonable basis for this claim anymore.
Source: Humans knew how to master fire earlier than thought | Uncommon Descent
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