Human Evolution: The Rise of Consciousness
- ISBN-10
- 1463616384
- ISBN-13
- 9781463616380
- Series
- Human Evolution
- Pages
- 581
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-21
- Author
- William Hale
Description
Human Evolution-The Rise of Consciousness 500 word-synopsis A systematic appraisal and re-enactment of Human Evolution connects the dots among un-evaluated phases and provides verifiable answers to questions previously never asked within the Scientific/Academic community. Specific behaviors that caused pre-Humans to branch off from their Hominid ancestors are elucidated from Modern-day group activities and logically extended to follow-up behaviors and evolutionary phases. For instance, a case is established for the "long-walking stride" which becomes associated with object-handling and the derived specialization of rock-throwing accuracy. A succession of revolutionary theories arises as a "solace" behavior-unique among certain groups-begins to transform glottal membranes into vocal cords with the passage of time over many thousands of generations. This first engineering step in oral communication emanating from the Female nucleus within the Group is accompanied and reinforced by guttural expellings from Males, slowly turning into glottal plosives and the beginning of consonantal articulation. In this tandem development Females provide vocalization, phonation and vowelization while Males participate with their equally crucial points of articulation, thus rounding out the necessary components of future oral communication. The critical concept of "meaning" and its association with phonetic symbols is carefully reconstructed involving Cerebrum expansion, short term memory enhancement, and the neural "tagging" resulting from survival-prone emotions. Observations of fossilized craniums throughout the paleontological record are vital to the progressive reconstruction of speech organs. Deducible variations in vertical posture account for an upward path of oral communication from glottis to pharynx to soft palate and the all important, final speech neural empowerment of the tongue. Concurrently, the bilabial contact component of female "solace" behavior provides a basic M bilabial articulation and others from the nasopharynx-these also contributing to the neural empowerment of the tongue. Climate-prompted biological evolution accounts for slight variations of appearance among the three main Ethnic Stocks of today's humanity. But a far greater variation in facial features does separate Modern Humans from their Chimpanzee/Bonobo hybrid ancestors. Unlike Humans they did not possess a lower front maxilla with an accentuated or textured vertical axis, displaying a nasal spine, a frenulumed upper lip, a fleshy lower lip, a protruding chin and loosely hinged mandible (among others). All these features were developed from behavioral (cultural) evolution in trans-generational, sustained attempts at oral communication. The last stage of Cerebrum expansion-from Archaic Homosapiens to Modern Humans-is thus attributable to the accelerated development of oral communication, highlighting the dominance of the Collective Consciousness within the Group and the epic struggle throughout the ages of Individual Consciousness and Individual thinking attempting to establish their dignity and sovereignty in relation to the Group. The intellectual development of Cerebrum evolution is carefully examined. The imaginative and fantastical aspect of "invented" knowledge is evaluated and contrasted with the relatively recent intrusion of the Scientific method yielding "discovered" knowledge. These revolutionary theories are legitimized with comprehensive data from climatology, paleoanthropology, embryology, genetics, linguistics, and the all-important phonology of 40 Ancient Languages--among other academic disciplines.
