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Tuesday
30 October 2007
Week 09 Day 17
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Announcements
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Credit Options?
- "Major archaeological find in Puerto Rico," LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZ, Associated Press, Duluth News Tribune, Monday, October 29, 2007, p. A6.
Viewable on-line at Yahoo News, <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_archaeological_find>:
- the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean
- may have belonged to the Taino or pre-Taino people that inhabited the island before European colonization, although other tribes are a possibility
- The Tainos were a subgroup of the Arawak Indians, who migrated to the Caribbean from Mexico's Yucatan centuries before European colonizers arrived
- It contains stones etched with ancient petroglyphs that form a large plaza measuring some 130 feet by 160 feet, which could have been used for ball games or ceremonial rites....
- The plaza may contain other artifacts dating from 600 A.D. to 1500 A.D.
- Jose Oliver, a Latin American archaeology lecturer at University College London, said that archeologists make discoveries of this significance every 50 or 100 years — if they are lucky
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Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
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to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]
Set Folder Selector to Topic 7
REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
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PCforum Topic 8 -- Human Species to Split?
A major UK newspaper reports:
"Human race will 'split into two different species'"
"The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist."
(Friday, 26th October 2007)Daily Mail (UK)
<www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965>
Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr. Oliver Curry
"Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics
expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge."
"... Curry ... says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000."
"People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added."
"The descendants of the genetic upper class would be
tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative
and a far cry from the 'underclass' humans
who would have evolved into
dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures . . ."
. . . read the rest at
<www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965>
Humanity may split into two sub-species
in 100,000 years' time
as predicted by HG Wells...
H G Wells' Science Fiction novel The Time Machine (which was later adapted into two films - this picture is from the 2002 version) the human race has evolved into two species, the highly intelligent and wealthy Eloi...
...and the frightening, animalistic Morlock (as seen in the 1960 film version of the classic book)
Related Stories:
Bad Science: Oliver Curry from the Darwin@LSE research centre -- Ben Goldacre, The Guardian (21 October 2006)
Human species 'may split in two -- Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
Oliver Curry -- Wikipedia
Other Species Splits:
Neanderthal DNA Illuminates Split with Humans New Scientist (10/11/06)
Evolution's human and chimp twist (18 May 06)
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What do you think about evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry's theory that humanity will evolve into two separate species?
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Rem: Set Folder Selector to Topic 8
REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
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Assignments
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Ch. 11, "Premodern Humans," pp. 243-272 |
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CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH -- "Ancient DNA," pp. 273-274 |
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