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Human
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 Anasazi
America : Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place
by David
E. Stuart
At the height of their power in the late eleventh
century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American
Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and
powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100
spectacular towns integrated the region through economic and religious
ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of
roads. It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to lay
the agricultural, organizational, and technological groundwork for the
creation of classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted about 200
yearsonly to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40.
Why did such a great society collapse? Who survived?
Why? In this lively book anthropologist/archaeologist David Stuart
presents answers to these questions that offer useful lessons to modern
societies. His account of the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi brings
to life the people known to us today as the architects of Chaco Canyon,
the spectacular national park in New Mexico that thousands of tourists
visit every year.
Chacos failure, Stuart argues, was a failure to adapt
to the consequences of rapid growth. Foremost among Chacoans problems
were misuse of farmland, malnutrition, loss of community, and inability
to deal with climatic catastrophe. The descendants of the Anasazi, the
Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, adapted strategically to minimize the
impact of these problems. Stuart sees the contrasting fates of the
Anasazi and their Pueblo descendants as a parable for modern societies.
About the Author
David E. Stuart, associate provost and professor of anthropology
at the University of New Mexico, is also the author of Prehistoric
New Mexico, Glimpses
of the Ancient Southwest, and The
Magic of Bandelier.
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Essay by Victor
J. Stenger. Excerpt:
As the bankruptcy of creation "science" becomes increasingly recognized, a
new catch phrase, intelligent design, has been adopted by those who persist in
their attempts to inject creationism into the science curriculum (see, for example, Of
Pandas and People, Davis 1993; Matsumura 1995 and Cole 1995 report on attempts to
introduce Pandas into schools). Intelligent design is a more subtle term than
creation science, one that has far broader implications than the genesis of life on a
minor planet in the corner of a minor galaxy. The argument that the material universe
resulted from conscious action outside itself can sound convincing, even to those who
accept biological evolution as established fact. Many who agree that biblical creation is
not an appropriate part of the science curriculum, because it is not science, may not
object to including material that argues with greater sophistication that the universe as
a whole shows evidence for design...
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Conduct for Research Involving Humans describes the policies of the Medical Research
Council (MRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The document replaces SSHRC's Ethics
Guidelines for Research with Human Subjects, MRC's Guidelines on Research Involving
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Institute for the Advancement of Humans as Marine Mammals. Among other things, this
organization is devoted to the adaptation of the human to fully enjoy the ocean environment.
In particular the organization encourages water advantaged people (such as paraplegics,
the elderly, the sight and hearing handicapped, etc) to live in an environment where these
special attributes may be of advantage. Take a look at the Official Charter of HAMM's. Articles
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Website based on the book by Lloyd Pye.
Have You Ever Wondered...?
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| why idiot-savants can somehow access parts of the remaining 90% |
| why we humans have a gene pool with over 4000 genetic defects? |
| why our closest genetic relatives, chimps and gorillas, have very few? |
| why we humans have genes that are only 200,000 to 250,000 years old? |
| why anthropologists insist that we descend from creatures 4,000,000 years old? |
| why we humans in no way resemble those ancient so-called “prehumans”? |
| why we humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a grand total of 46? |
| why our closest genetic relatives (sharing 98% - 99% of our DNA) total 48? |
| how we humans could lose 2 whole chromosomes in only 250,000 years? |
| why our skin is so poorly adapted to the amount of sunlight striking Earth? |
| why we are so physically weak compared to our closest genetic relatives? |
| why Earth is minus a huge part of its crust, the part where the oceans are? |
| why Earth is the only planet or moon with moveable tectonic plates? |
| why Earth’s moon is so extraordinarily outsized relative to other moons? |
| why megalithic structures like the Pyramids cannot be duplicated today? |
| why many stones in those structures would buckle today’s largest moveable cranes? |
| how the ancient Sumerians knew all about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto? |
| why we found Uranus only in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930? |
| how and why the Sumerians kept cosmic time in units of almost 26,000 years? |
| if these questions will ever end? |
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Lime green, meat pies, office politics, corporate corruption,
environmental destruction, poverty, the Spice Girls and all other evils of society could
be avoided if we weren't human...
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The SETI Institute serves as the home for scientific research
in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Our research is designed to answer the question:
Are we alone in the Universe? Site Included:
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