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| − | Outline a modern scientific world-view with respect to evolution of human society | + | Outline a modern scientific world-view with respect to origins of universe, Earth, life, and humans, and to evolution of human society. In your response please reference: three successive overall strategies adopted by humans to interact with the environment and secure satisfaction of wants, how we evolved society as we shifted from one to another, and subsistence compromise. (~300 words) |
* 1. According to a modern scientific world-view how long ago did: the universe originate, Earth form, the last Ice Age end, life on Earth originate, the earliest humans live, Homo sapiens appear? | * 1. According to a modern scientific world-view how long ago did: the universe originate, Earth form, the last Ice Age end, life on Earth originate, the earliest humans live, Homo sapiens appear? | ||
* 2. How have we in this course briefly described humans with respect to obtaining subsistence, size of social groups, overall population, and sources of energy during the 98% of our tenure prior to agriculture? | * 2. How have we in this course briefly described humans with respect to obtaining subsistence, size of social groups, overall population, and sources of energy during the 98% of our tenure prior to agriculture? | ||
Revision as of 17:55, 28 April 2017
Outline a modern scientific world-view with respect to origins of universe, Earth, life, and humans, and to evolution of human society. In your response please reference: three successive overall strategies adopted by humans to interact with the environment and secure satisfaction of wants, how we evolved society as we shifted from one to another, and subsistence compromise. (~300 words)
- 1. According to a modern scientific world-view how long ago did: the universe originate, Earth form, the last Ice Age end, life on Earth originate, the earliest humans live, Homo sapiens appear?
- 2. How have we in this course briefly described humans with respect to obtaining subsistence, size of social groups, overall population, and sources of energy during the 98% of our tenure prior to agriculture?
- 3. About when did humans evolve civilization based upon agriculture?
- 4. Name three changes to the physical environment and three social changes that accompanied this shift.
- 5. What are three arguments that agriculture was a mistake.
- 6. About when did European people shift from home to factory manufacturing and begin large-scale commerce?
- 7. What were three environmental resources important to this transition?
- 8. What do we mean by "subsistence compromise" as we use the term in valuescience?
- 9. In what critical way is the "subsistence compromise" of peasant cultivators different from "subsistence wages"?
- 10. How do some of us deny others the subsistence compromise?
- 11. What interests do some of us aim to further by denying others the subsistence compromise?
- 12. How does Ponting argue that we in the First World have created the Third World?
- 13. How has the valuescience teaching team summarily described in ecological and evolutionary terms a history of our species inconsistent with a story of "progress" that many at Stanford and in US society have embraced?
