Featured Book New World New Mind Moving Toward Conscious Evolution Robert E. Ornstein and Paul R. Ehrlich Paperback edition 2000 The world that made us was one that changed little or not at all during a lifetime: tasks and social roles were passed down unaltered for millennia. Our biological evolution favored ancestors with limited perceptions and …
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Featured Book Multimind A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior By Robert E. OrnsteinContributing Writer The author notes that since the publication of his breakthrough work “The Psychology of Consciousness,” the scientific understanding of the brain has become more detailed and specific. Rather than confining our understanding to two minds: the rational mind, dependent …
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Featured Book Healthy Pleasures Robert Ornstein and David SobelPaperback edition 1990 Imagine a medical treatment that can help lower your blood pressure, decrease your risk for heart disease and cancer, boost your immune function and block pain. It’s safe, inexpensive and readily available. The main side effects include feeling good, an increased sense of well-being …
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In Britain, about 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites appear to have been built within little more than a century. By Sally MallamContributing Writer While Stonehenge is definitely the most famous stone circle in the British Isles, recent discoveries reveal that about 4,500 years ago as the Neolithic era reached its end, as many as 1,300 Neolithic mega-sites …
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Morality and ethical behavior are foundational to human cooperation and success. But moral action can be distorted by misinformation, emotions, and the influence of others. Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally MallamContributing Writers The content of this section, unless indicated, represents Robert Ornstein’s award-winning Psychology of Evolution Trilogy and Multimind. It is reproduced here by kind …
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“A mind trying to defeat a stereotype leaves little mental capacity free for anything else we’re doing.” – Claude Steele. David Sobel, MD, MPH, and Sally MallamContributing Writers In his autobiography “Parallel Time,” Brent Staples, an African-American writer, describes being a graduate student at the University of Chicago. While walking down the street dressed as a …
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Featured Book Neanderthal Man In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante PääboReviewed by George Kasabov Neanderthals, our nearest cousin species, finally died out soon after 40,000 years ago. How are we related to them? When did we first branch off from them? Did we interbreed with them? How big is the genetic gap between our …
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Ancient DNA has enabled scientists to understand how complex biological traits evolve over time. They can follow the complex evolution of skin pigmentation and traits such as blue eyes and height. Skin color is extremely variable, even on the African continent, and is still evolving. A study of diverse African groups led by University of …
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Recent technological breakthroughs in genomic analysis, combined with archeological, paleoanthropological, linguistic and other information, now give us an unparalleled opportunity to trace humanity’s evolution and movement in time – how we developed, differentiated and interbred many times, and arrived at our present planet-wide population. Until recently, the leading theory of human population descent, known as …
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from The Institute for Cultural Research
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Is it really possible that the first followers of Jesus, who valued their beliefs so highly that they were prepared to suffer martyrdom for their sake, would allow manifestly pagan elements to slip in? If so,
given the depth of their faith, we shall surely be able to draw some interesting conclusions as to the nature and quality of human belief. In this monograph, again taking Christianity as a case history, we shall discuss the extent to which the personalities of the first followers of Jesus, and the environment in which they were working may have helped to shape the faith we regard today as Christianity.
