What Does it Mean to be Human?

What Does it Mean to be Human?
Author: Richard Potts
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010
Genre: Human beings
ISBN: 1426206062

This generously illustrated book tells the story of the human family, showing how our species' physical traits and behaviors evolved over millions of years as our ancestors adapted to dramatic environmental changes. In What Does It Means to Be Human? Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program, and Chris Sloan, National Geographic's paleoanthropolgy expert, delve into our distant past to explain when, why, and how we acquired the unique biological and cultural qualities that govern our most fundamental connections and interactions with other people and with the natural world. Drawing on the latest research, they conclude that we are the last survivors of a once-diverse family tree, and that our evolution was shaped by one of the most unstable eras in Earth's environmental history. The book presents a wealth of attractive new material especially developed for the Hall's displays, from life-like reconstructions of our ancestors sculpted by the acclaimed John Gurche to photographs from National Geographic and Smithsonian archives, along with informative graphics and illustrations. In coordination with the exhibit opening, the PBS program NOVA will present a related three-part television series, and the museum will launch a website expected to draw 40 million visitors.

The Medicine of Numbers

The Medicine of Numbers
Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
Total Pages: 227
Release:
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Have you ever wondered why certain numbers keep appearing in your life? Is it possibly some type of communication means with the Spirit realm? What is the hidden message in your initials or even the spelling of your name? Are you aware there is a message in the spelling of your name that is found through numbers? Beautifully illustrated, The Medicine in Numbers shares with you the sacred geometry of the spiritual origins and linear progression of numbers, including the consciousness and meaning of each, along with the correlation between letters and numbers and how that can be useful in learning more about yourself. Written by a Native American Medicine Man, Medicine in Numbers includes a Medicine Primer to introduce you to what is meant by the term 'Medicine' and The Medicine Way of Spirituality.

About - 2012 & Beyond

About - 2012 & Beyond
Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-12-31
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Have You wondered What will really occur on December 21, 2012? Have You wondered Why the Mayan Calendar Stops on that Date? Would You like to know what You can do Now to save All Life here on Mother Earth? Share in the means and experiences that a practicing Medicine Man takes to solve these very questions that is described and illustrated in detail within this very book! Within the pages and chapters of this book, not only does White Eagle provide detailed descriptions of what he experienced and saw, he even includes photos so that you can examine them and make your own conclusions.

Society in Prehistory

Society in Prehistory
Author: Tim Megarry
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 1995-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0814755380

Reveals a profound understanding of evolutionary biology, and an excellent up-to-date knowledge of human evolution studies. It is not only very well done, but...it is written from a novel point of view. It needs to be very widely read and I hope that it will be. Megarry is doing his subject a great service. --Bernard Campbell University of California Social scientists have tended to neglect prehistory in their approach to human societies. Tim Megarry's lucid and authoritative book remedies this neglect. It will be of great value to students of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. --Paul HirstBirkbeck College, University of London Stressing the importance of culture as a formative agent in the evolutionary emergence of modern humans, Society in Prehistory provides an impressive, interdisciplinary, and deeply informed survey of prehistory. Individual chapters focus on culture and evolution; biology and culture; primate societies; the first hominids; tools and culture; the economics of foraging; modern humans and human behavior; sex and the division of labor; and sexuality and social life. The book reveals that, while social behavior is biologically grounded, it is not biologically determined.

Being Human in an Artificial World

Being Human in an Artificial World
Author: Geoffrey W. Cheong
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2024-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1923206508

The vision of Raimon Panikkar is to examine an understanding of the fulness of the human experience, understood ultimately in the iconic image of Jesus, the Christ. This book aims to explore an understanding of his work in context, context of the history of humanity, the emerging integral era of perception, the context of the contemporary secular society, which he speaks of as an artificial life, and the context of creation and the creator. As creature he sees the secret of life in the inter-relational nature of the three, creature, creation and creator. The unique nature of this mysterious three-way unity leads him to coin a term to speak of its nature as Cosmotheandric. His extensive academic background, of philosophy, theology and science, and the broad life of spirituality lived in the context of the interreligious world of both East and West equips well his mind to probe life's nature. Of his many students, Ewert Cousins' asks the pertinent question of how to live Panikkar's vision? It is the author's contribution to respond to Cousins' question, while drawing upon Panikkar's cosmothendric concept, by drawing upon contemporary knowledge through the model of the scriptural wisdom to, 'love God and one's neighbour as one's self. This he refers to as Relational Spirituality. The integral era of history is appearing on the horizon of the global psyche to birth a new era of human mindfulness like never before. Carl Jaspers has highlighted two major times of transition shaping humankind through the passing millennia that have moved humanity from a simple human life to the highly complex time of today. Jaspers spoke of the transition in human consciousness through the millennium prior to the life of Jesus Christ, as the First Axial Period of History. Martin Heidegger, Teilherd de Chardin, Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber, Ewert Cousins, Raimon Panikkar, are some of the thought leaders of our time who have made major contributions to this understanding of the emerging Integral awareness. For many the disturbing changes encountered on the surface of society ring loudly of crisis. Secularisation is the dominant life-style primarily shaped by the cyber revolution and its Artificial Intelligence. Most concerning is the range of questions humans face about their personal value and loss of substantial meaning. Dr Cheong draws upon the great minds listed above, in particular the work of Raimon Panikkar, to map a pathway for growing more fully into an Integral way of life, which he refers to as Relational Spirituality.

Science and Human Origins

Science and Human Origins
Author: Ann Gauger
Publisher: Discovery Institute
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781936599042

Evidence for a purely Darwinian account of human origins is supposed to be overwhelming. But is it? In this provocative book, three scientists challenge the claim that undirected natural selection is capable of building a human being, critically assess fossil and genetic evidence that human beings share a common ancestor with apes, and debunk recent claims that the human race could not have started from an original couple.

Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells,Volume 3

Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells,Volume 3
Author: M.A. Hayat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9400724152

It is pointed out that cancer stem cell is a cell type within a tumor that possesses the capacity of cell-renewal and can give rise to the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells that comprise the tumor. It is emphasized that a cancer stem cell is a tumor initiating cell. That conventional chemotherapy kills most cells in a tumor, but cancer stem cells remain intact is discussed. Vast applications of stem cells, cancer stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and human pluripotent stem cells are discussed. Because human embryonic stem cells possess the potential of producing unlimited quantities of any human cell type, considerable focus is placed on their therapeutic potential in this volume. Because of the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells, this volume discusses various applications such as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, pharmacological and toxicological uses. The role of these cells in cell differentiation is also included. The role of cancer stem cells of breast, colon, and melanoma tumors in response to antitumor therapy is detailed. The role of cancer stem cells, specifically in the deadliest brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, is explained. Transplantation of bone marrow-derived stem cells for myocardial infarcation and use of mesenchymal stem cells in orthopedics are described.

Human Origins

Human Origins
Author: New Scientist
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 147367042X

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of the universe and travelled into space. Yet just 7 million years ago, we were just another species of great ape making a quiet living in the forests of East Africa. We do not know exactly what this ancestor was like, but it was no more likely than a chimpanzee or gorilla to sail across the ocean, write a symphony, invent a steam engine or ponder the meaning of existence. How did we get from there to here? The Story of Human Origins recounts the most astonishing evolutionary tale ever told. Discover how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilization - perhaps the only one of its kind in the Universe. Meet your long-lost ancestors, the other humans who once shared the planet with us, and learn where the story might end.

Damocles

Damocles
Author: S. G. Redling
Publisher: 47north
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Extraterrestrial beings
ISBN: 9781611099652

Loul Pell is a middle class government functionary resigned to the loss of his ambitious dreams. Meg Dupris is a traveler from a distant galaxy, haunted by tragedy and committed to a lifelong journey of discovery. Their chance meeting will be the first step toward life-changing history: contact with an extraterrestrial race.