Man and Evolution

There were certain behaviors that provoked qualitative changes in our evolution and separated us from all other species in the planet, inducing the opposite behaviors they turn man against himself. Deception was the approach and although in came in many forms superstition is their weapon of choice. This fraud is truly “the original sin”, to condemn mankind to the occult for their benefit.

 

The mating system of the species was changing…were being replaced with something much more monogamous” … “The habit acquired through the sexual division of labor had spread to other aspects of life. We had become compulsively good at sharing things, which had the new benefit of allowing each individual to specialize. It was this division of labor among specialists unique to our species that was the key to our ecological success, because it allowed the growth of technology - The Genome.

 

 “Compulsiveness to share” and “monogamy” is the result of a unique specialization that separated us from all other species; it precedes men as it made us human. Self-preservation instincts where modified by the introduction of “empathy” as a practical adaptation, recognition of others basic needs as a function of our own survivor, giving us the advantage over the environmental demand. The original values system is the result of the disambiguation of energy and time in the context of agglutination, a new event that establishes society as the species main survival mechanism, generating a new gravity center and a moral compass that defined movement and equilibrium.  Costumes and cultures contain a historical account of the human experience, but only remain consistent when the priorities realigned according to the human condition.

 

Organisms that take fewer steps to perform a task become more efficient and have an evolutionary advantage. They do this by detecting patterns in the environment and generating behavior, always attempting to find the most beneficial formula. Adding over millions of years, pieces of tested genetic logic to a permanent structure, eventually incorporating principles of order to an innate common sense that in man laid the foundation for the development of language.  

Cooperation or the concentration of simpler life forms into increasingly complex organisms turned out to be the most efficient way to survive, the performance is adjusted to the larger group and the time-energy ratio improves exponentially generating certainty. These relationships produce life’s tendency to agglutinate, highly specialized species as well as social ones are both the result of concentrating efforts, grouping, regrouping and specializing to achieve better balance.

All societies are based on a level of cooperation; human society expresses this kinetic development in very specific ways, producing the relaxation in certain areas of economic growth and preserving other more restrictive relationships for political structures and hierarchies, with the resources implications. It is at the bottom the right simplification which generated the potential, capacity and complexity; an adaptation that opened up the possibilities to new variables and placed us on a natural growth trajectory.

 

“In an experiment set up to study human nature whenever people were asked to play a test game, they proved remarkably likely to try cooperation (it was attributed to irrationality and inexplicable niceness) – but in the late 1970’s something rather disturbing began to happen, when Computers started using their cold, hard, rational brains to play, they began to do the same as those foolish, naïve human beings, to be irrational keen to cooperate” - The origins of Virtue –

The game was call “Tit for tat”, it proved mathematically that cooperation and joining forces prevails over competition in the game of survival. It also attempted to find the answers to man’s tendency to cooperate in reciprocity; a well-recognized behavior in social animals where a favor is exchange for another one later from that particular individual. But this kind of reciprocity always includes exchanging food or sex for friendship protection and other benefits, and in humans, this instinct like many others was modified and the favor is not necessarily returned by the same individual, helping becomes part an existential priority, sharing information in the context of general expectations created by a superlative system.

Reciprocity is the half-way point between two locations, the perfect cycle and the stability measure, but stability can only be found in the movement therefore takes on the shape of many cycles and complex structures. This provided the flexibility for economic hierarchies and idiosyncrasies that linked to the resources would cause a relative loss of energy limiting the species; it facilitated growth. Social reciprocity is the function of the new organism that produces the development of virtue and generates the capacity.

Reciprocity on as part of the collective bargaining becomes social reciprocity, the feelings and emotions is how we perceive the extended timeline and what makes it work, the motivations generated by the new energy-time continuum. Environmental pressure are set to the new event validation the empathic resources and transcending time the only way possible; making the environment available everywhere and giving as the ability to regenerate, the capacity to recover all ambiguities and the common ground. It freed the species form the smaller event and the dead-end corners to become part of a larger ecosystem, and reflect a more general condition of the information. The smaller variable can be easily replaced which yields the statistical advantage synthesizing energy, becoming indistinctive for all intents and proposes of the new certainty and reducing the environmental drag. In the context of a learning curve and technology no demand is ever above the performance, and every person becomes aggregated value to the generalization and more independent as part of a negation that is held together by a new bond.

 

It stimulated the development of “care”, establishing a performance that is the foundation for behavior and defines the social environment, a political condition that provides a range of motion in the context of the empiric negation, allowing for the learning and providing traction. Conditioning some relationship to the empathic event where they yield a better economic coefficient and others to the faster movement and higher demand. In general widening the stand and lowering the center of gravity generating a growth potential.

Evolving from cooperation a platform remains better define as other relationships take on a value as part of economic and historical developments, which consists of needs, specialized structures that build the body out the awareness giving us the capacity to recover time and “understand”. Human’s social deference and moral self-awareness are not antagonistic, in fact they are the result of the social evolution and part of one another, and can only exist in that connection.

It created a memory that is stable and could absorb growth without the need for the restructuring caused by enrichment; the internal tension that forces the reduction of cost and contact or subverts the energy (focus). It achieved maximum possible certainty generating moral structures and the emotional articulations. A social performance dominated by values, with stimulus and motivations that provided context for the socio-economic activity, with the resistance reversing direction to reflect the empathic resources and the social expectations of the new body, the gratification pointing at giving and sharing.

 

“Care” is the negation of movement that allows us to move and consume, a manipulation of place and time and the process of ossification, what is rigid, soft and fluid. An enhancement of the performance that allowed us to incorporate more information and absorb the fluctuations of a longer trajectory; like being young or old, tall or short, pregnant or nursing, sick and hurt, and many other unpredictable variables. It is the quantitative easing that generates the expectations that allow us to comprise the resources and produce the positive range of motion, and the most defining human function. The expansion of the time horizon generated assumptions allowing us to grow in the context of cultural legacies, the sensitivities constitute a subconscious awareness of time and mathematical relationships. We developed a conscience that defines a path and asks the question; what are these feelings for?

As part of a general refocusing it is based on social reciprocity, redistributing the energy and sharing information in all directions which reflects the environmental demand also being displaced and similar. It reconciles many conflicts and antagonistic relationships, like the restrictive essence of the agglutination process itself, producing two areas that would complement each other and enhance a general capacity. A time window urged by the emanation of empathy resets the speed coefficient, setting up the virtualization of resources that produces the understanding and the panoramic view of the universe. Similar stabilizing mechanisms have been appreciated in nature, organs and floating bladders that get around structural limitation, but none as complex as human’s moral negation, which reflects the energy expectations of a single organisms that changes the way we count and multiply. We can internalize quantity as part of a larger time abstraction and reflect pressure in a much distant future.

Chimpanzees already start relaxing some of the hierarchy when sharing food to make sure all individuals eat, and isolated primitive human societies share up to ninety percent of all the meat the hunt, even cultures that haven had contact in thousands of years. Social reciprocity is the resetting to the larger organism giving us the longest reach and the most freedom of movement.

All societies have been formed through various mechanisms that facilitate the agglutination process and guaranty functionality, such as the queen bee, the alpha couple, patriarchal and matriarchal societies, etc., all elitist systems that usually involve extreme compromises in reproductive behavior and restrictions that force collaboration. A modification of procreation predispositions human empathy was eventually incorporated into our genetic blue print. It expanded from maternal instincts and generated monogamous behavior and the rest of the original values system. At the same time selective breeding is eliminated and equal reproductive responsibilities spread out to all individuals and a family nucleus evolves. The division of labor between man and woman is not found in any other primates though there were additional benefits in sharing the burden of survival further.

 

In general the force that brings human society together is replaced by a new connection as the energy is spread out more evenly adjusting the performance to promote the flow of the significant information and a social environment. This happened in a very small group of individuals, a bottle neck that causes humans to be genetically more similar than all other apes of the same species are to each other. When we see the obvious differences in appearance we can only see one single destiny, the numbers cannot work otherwise.

 

Women’s reproductive cycles reflect human’s unique requirements. Unlike most other species which procreate until near the end of their lives women reproduce for only half of theirs; reflecting the huge significance of a learning culture since nothing usually takes precedence over procreation. It provides the necessary time for nurture and education, determining society’s age demographics and emotional composition with very profound socioeconomic ramifications. It guarantees the process of passing down knowledge and a balanced work force, establishing also an age hierarchy. In general we reach our physical prime much earlier than a psychological or intellectual maturity, showing also the performance and shifting of the burden to society.

 

“A completely self-sufficient human being has not walked the earth since, over one million years ago. Just as the body is an uneasy triumph of harmony over cellular egoism; so the cell itself is a delicate compromise of the same kind…Selfish subversion threatens the coagulators” The origins of virtue.

These are some the dynamics generated by agglutination and the transfer of responsibilities to a larger more efficient system, energy adjustment in exchange for a longer more secure existence, with the human bond being the coagulators. Men goes out of his way to help which can only make sense as a function of a superlative system, a different context and the only one where it become the shortest possible distance between point A and B, is the performance of the part that “sacrifices” certain things for the body. The smile for instance, which is a unique human characteristic, is the stabilizing calling of a new certainty, with the reassuring, invigorating, calming and soothing potential… little sacrifice, it at all, with incredible redeeming value. (When society takes the longest route for the sake of another entity it is sacrificing itself to its forces and trajectory)

Human’s agglutination mechanism transformed the old self into a new species with unique adaptations to experience the surroundings, which is how the task is accomplished. The individual is shaped in function of a new and unique mating system, receptiveness to empathy and new ways of interacting that define the human condition. Obvious physical barriers like hair are lost, and facial expressions developed during retrofitting cycles of sensory transformations and emotional awareness that shaped the human body and the brain.

The complexity brought about by society generated the exceptional expansion of the brain and stimulated the abstract thought that allows us to communicate, but it needs language to express the potential and exercise the condition, the tools and the vocabulary. There is a direct correlation between the size of the brain in land mammals and their societies; in fact, the number of relationships is mathematically predictable, human have the largest relative brain capable of recognizing over 250 individual. In addition, the emotions are contained for the most part in the frontal lobe where the decision making and rational thought take place, and there is proof that damage to this area and the reduction of emotions in general produces irrational behavior.

 

Specialization comes with attachment to specific resources and other restrictions, specializing in cooperation only, humans are able to get around the inevitable focusing attached to evolution and achieve actual de-specialization and the flexibility to solve conflict that limit other species in the evolution of  “care”.  Man then gets maximum benefit from both cooperation and focusing further on a cultural level, or the specialist, but this is not a unique concept in nature; humans were just able to reproduce some of the same attributes of the stem cell within the proportions of a longer learning curve; Stem Cell research is based on the fact that cells in embryonic state are generally despecialized and when placed in a specific environment can learn to perform different function.

The lack of selective breeding is a result of the extraordinary efficiency of this system; mating is based on other mechanisms that included a more distinctive individual. Sexual dimorphism starts disappearing with selective breeding and the processes that generate constant reproductive changes are suppressed or turned off. It produces a little bit of a hybrid, extremely social being with great awareness and range of motion, reflecting the displacement of the variables, speed and the movement.

The SRY gene, which is related to masculinization, is one of the fastest evolving and active ones, but in the human race it is a variation free gene, there are virtually no point mutations since the last common ancestor of people 200,000 years ago, and there is ten times more variation between humans and other apes as it is typical for other genes. In addition, there was between 500 and 200 hundred thousand years ego an unusual high number of mutations in a gene called SLC2A1 which builds proteins for transporting glucose from blood vessels into cells, vital to the brains wellbeing, in humans there are about 2.5 to 3 times as many copies of this gene as there are in chimp’s brains. At the same time the gene for the glucose transporter in the muscles called SIC2A4 also underwent natural selection but in the opposite direction; human’s muscles contain fewer glucose transporters than chimp’s.

Not coincidentally the human brain took on its current form and size about 200.000 years ago when Homo sapiens emerged. Women’s immune system in the womb also restricts the masculinization of the brain by a series of genes in the Y chromosome, but not that of the reproductive organs. In addition, scientists have found that the whole assault on the Y chromosome and aggression in general intensifies with each pregnancy, and that it might extend to the nursing period. Furthermore the levels of testosterone have be linked to the economic activity, cultural development and population, hunter gatherer societies and agriculture, proving the humbling effects of the socialization process, the retroactive nature of the system and unique relationship with technology. While there is a manifest destiny the interaction with the environment determines some of the movement.

 

There is proof that a process known as Sexual Antagonism slows down the introduction of fresh genetic material, variations and mutation through a sort of evolutionary trial and error known as Genetic Sweeping, and that the more social the species becomes the more likely this antagonism is to show up. Ninety seven percent of the human genome, which has been described as “Selfish DNA” or “Junk DNA”, is probably the result of this process. The genders secondary function, replacing the genetic material that is constantly eliminated through selective breeding, is largely replaced with genetic shuffling, transferring a good portion of the ability to adapt to a single organism. This means the responsibility of specialization goes to the culture and the socioeconomic infrastructure depend on education, making seniority a corner stone of the evolution, in fact defining the moral structures.

This could be the reason for the very existence of the genders. It is itself a mechanism that generates movement and guarantees genetic variety, creating also the control in the sexual antagonism, which eventually reduces the Y chromosome to extreme levels due to the need for precision. This need is so strong it further favors one side of what’s already an extremely well adapted body generating the right or left hand bias.

Genetic predisposition and processes that take place during the gestation period are geared to eliminating the old selfish and aggressive tendencies; human culture can only be the third phase of that process rather than oppose it. “Junk DNA” which is more likely to be a filter of information rather than useless historical data, if not the information would be tested over and over. What doesn’t work is as important as what does; we are defined as much by what we are not as what we are, what we negate or turn away from. It is also safe to assume at this point that social structures guaranteed access to food and other resources since this is usually determined by the species reproductive needs.

 

The original function of the search instinct is to interpret information in the environment; it reduces it to the essential minimum for success, quicker access and response. The focus of survival now shifts to perfecting society life which adds a dimension of quality and a time context, forcing the search to widen its scope, detect increasingly complex patterns and project further into the future, slowly incorporating more intricate relationships as genetic information. This makes it increasingly more internal, able to act like a “search engine” and browse through an expanding memory.

 

The new guidance system then applies the same method of synthesis the information in the context of the recombination of the values system which conditions the behavior providing consistency and direction. It also retains a temporary record of the activity and approximates the areas of demand to optimize its potential, always looking to generate more certainty. It is able to triangulate external input and internal information and maintain a connection as long as relevant information is being received or there is not enough data for a conclusion. All the senses are important but human’s relationship with sound is very defining of the species.

All species calibrate the four dimensional world around them and balance capacity with possibilities through experience; depth perception, latitude, range of motion, speed, etc. They fill in particular measurements into hard wired evolutionary adaptations, genetic formulas that approximate the information to the limits of the specialization and calibrate only the variables, allowing them to make instinctive risk and efficiency assessments. Simultaneously, in humans; these abilities are transferred to the social context and turned into a moral intuition that is connected to an emotional system, and constitutes the center piece of man’s social brain.

 

Our minds would be in suspended animation without a series of points of references, clusters of information that create a background context for the physical world as well as social environment and all areas of thought. Things have no meaning without contrast so every piece of information is matched against that background and narrowed down by association allowing us to measure and rationalize. Generic structures provide the framework and starting point to organize our experiences and generate an image of the world, each additional experience contributes then to further organizing the information. Through this process we program behavior, generating patterns of conduct and fast reactions, preserving energy and time assumptions.

Influences from our parents and society are matched to these categories through the emotional system, stimulating and creating points of references that link the emotional reaction to specific patterns or events, establishing connections to the environment and providing context for social and economic relationships. Eventually it generates a values system, cognitive reactions and consistent behavior, the more points of references the better define the system. Therefore strong emotional impulses are necessary during childhood when much of the learning takes place, and outlets such as crying and laughing are even more necessary. We can then take more precise measurements of these relationships in this unique dimension (like a cat measures distance and speed), and our perception of risk, efficiency, success or failure, sense of place and purpose are general connected to it. The cultural influences are an important step in the calibration of chemical and hormonal processes.

• The kinds of events that cause guilt may vary from culture to culture but the reaction to guilt is the same the world over. Like most innate capacities (language, say, or good humor) though, the moral one can be nurtured or suppressed by different kinds of upbringing; so to say that the emotions that fuel morality are innate is not to say they are immutable – The Origins of Virtue.

 

The emotional spectrum evolved to reflect human empathy as part of the new social dimension. This form of communication developed from behaviors previously preserved for procreation as a result of the need to coexist and more certainty. Eventually instinctive reactions were transformed into behavior directed at reducing tension and group cohesiveness, settle social conflicts and adapt to communal life, a new compulsive need for the group. As the values system emerges it suppresses most instinctive behaviors transforming them into strong suggestions, somewhat insulated from the compulsive motion, allowing input from patterns that develop over longer periods of time in order to produce the deliberate behavior, at the right time, and still condition automatic responses whenever possible. It promoted the evolution of the intellect, and the emergence of emotional outlets as a result of the internal group demand unique to humans, like laughing and crying.

All social mammals have developed similar systems to communicate; as survival imperatives changed it was turned into the sensory system that defines the human condition. It generated a pause that facilitated the expansion of awareness and the transition from subconscious to conscious behavior, a resonance box that requires calibration to the group for optimal performance, reflecting general expectations and cultural idiosyncrasies. As a function of certainty and the evolution of responsibly it becomes a sort of echolocation, generating an image of the environment and the significant information, showing us the path and the obstacles.

The emotional system retained behavior conditioning properties while creating the capacity to process more complex information, remains strongly connected to the heart and other bodily functions reflecting its priority. We acquire more control over our actions within the context of a code of conduct and an emotional system that seeks balance and defines the human condition, become more proactive in every sense of the word, able to articulate our spaces and comprise energy more efficiently, emotions that allow us to justify pressure and recalibrate distance.

Empathy is the element that enabled the energy synthesis, the actual process of narrowing down the scope of the search while negating the extremes and remaining inside an environment that guaranteed a quality. In essence prioritizing group cohesiveness and conditioning the relationships to a moral assessment that defines the recovery of information and the fusion of intellect to the motivation. It defines human nature embracing harmony and rejecting violence, and preserves society as the species main survival mechanism. It is our evolutionary solution to agglutination, the antagonistic essence of confining energy and the need for growth allowing us to maximize the resources, and reflects cooperation prevailing over competition defining a path and a very long trajectory. We are not specialists, we are primarily a cooperative species.

 

A new form of communication is incorporated into our DNA as part of a new awareness and a cultural condition. Scientists have discovered proof of the innateness of language skills, a universal human grammar of comparable complexity even in people isolated from civilization since the Stone Ages. It has been located and identified as the “language gene”, we are born with this capacity but most of the connections are made during childhood and development years. The language structure is part of the same evolution that generated the moral articulations that allow us to confine the moment and express the predisposition of the time continuum maximizing the resources.

This unique adaptation is essential to human evolution. All life forms reinforce essential behaviors through repetition, they hone in their skills or evolutionary advantages to locate and approximate stability. This is even more important for humans who have more capacity to rewire expectations and program some sensitivities to certain conditions. Language is part of a general intuition that allows us to restructure and organize information. We are able to fill in missing information to a greater extent due to the expansion of empathy and the time horizon. It also produces a great imagination and the ability to appreciate music, dancing and the arts, generating a fluid environment where the reciprocity can be sustained best and simplifying the demand as part of one trajectory, making it easier to move and adapt.

The increased dependency on culture is the result of extreme despecialization, which makes the values system also retroactive and part of the social development, modified through experience and education. Like the ability to speak it is a logical sequence that needs the points of reference and realignment of time to be completed. Through this system we incorporated information and generate behavior to simplify the answer whenever possible.  We also form opinions, make decisions and develop concept that reflect our values and experience and give it their qualities. By developing sensible procedures and eliminating unavailable options further an increasingly fast and more efficient system is created. This requires an interactive system that take advantage of cooperation. This system is not only design to get faster but also learn faster; it is meant to optimize our potential. The efficiency of this formula in relation to population, technology, resources and other factors determines the rate of progress and society’s survival coefficient. Solving problems by developing automatic reactions and information platforms is the equivalent of common sense, and since it builds upon itself and must share information it relies on cultural integrity.

 

This process is an evolutionary imperative; it is how we focus ourselves and the tools we use, how we adapt today which is obviously an incredible advantage. It is also bound by structural limitations well defined priorities and procedures which create the path of least resistance and a sense of direction. It is all around us, precision and strength, energy and function, freedom and regulations, being selective with the information which is indispensable to obtain a result. This can take on the form of selective breeding which in humans is replaced by the moral imperative. Specialization and cooperation reflect the universal tendency to beat the variables and the environmental demand, a disproportionate approach makes the performance suffer.

 

Under normal conditions focus reduces and places a time limit on the energy demand not on us; the right tool or a better designed one wastes less energy, and too much power affects precision adversely (the adaptation or specialization). They are inversely proportional and in either case we don’t get the right results, or answer. Like in all other social species as a result of the mutual evolution genetic predispositions determine social composition and structural boundaries, procreation, hunger and other risk and self-preservation needs are hard wired because they are uncompromising when it comes to survival, and set the priorities in that specific order, the latter always adjusting first to environmental pressures. Although in humans education shares almost equal time with procreation.

 

The ability to relate to suffering and the context provided by a new concept of time made us self-aware. The introspect nature of the “search” gives us a conscience, and an emerging intellect furthers our understanding of the universe. From this point on the species awareness is linked to a social evolution and a learning process. It slowed down the pace of life as the certainty horizon expanded optimizing our capacity to capture the patterns within.

 

Human Empathy brought about a unique awareness that made man more efficient. This improved ability to solve problem created a protective environment to which we gravitate, a self-preservation instinct that holds it together. It changed competition into cooperation and displaced the pressures of survival of the fittest, transforming the environmental demand into reasonable expectations. In bringing more certainty to life’s most essential functions it also improved the capacity to benefit from “trial and error” providing relative freedom from the perpetual search for food and shelter, allowing time for the development of culture and making learning and tradition imperative. It mitigated dependencies on more dynamic conditions and readjusted the species energy needs, gradually increasing life expectancy. The new energy imperative and resources bias reduced the environmental demand as it improved our capacity keeping us on the path of the never ending quest for the most efficient ways to relate to the environment.

 

It is this evolutionary emancipation that allows men to specialize on activities others than food production and safety; supporting roles such as education and infrastructure which become paramount to survival, and eventually others that generated the need to trade. The fact that humans can dedicate fewer individuals than any other society to basic functions is a reflection of success not a vulnerability, and is only made possible by the capacity to share and ability to allocate resources.

This process constitutes a substantial transfer of recognition and anticipation in terms of the species evolution from the individual to the group, a much more efficient organism. Society can comprise a wisdom unavailable to the individual and manage millions of times the information, built platforms from which the specialist benefits and contributes to, making the return always greater for the species. The energy relationship is adjusted to the new unit yielding time to all the parts, the social structures and connections that ensue are restricted by this boundaries, guaranteed by the moral negation and the values system, its social reflection.

Human society is held together by structures just like the ones of a tree, and internal dynamics keep it in balance with the environment. Cooperation and the need for recognition are the yin and yang, the same process that gives us the evolutionary equality makes us distinct individual, the moral assessment also brings about a living standard, the affections and love generate expectations and pain, understanding is linked to the values and the social to the private, they define each other and produce a quality. Society creates the “new self” which cannot exist without society. They are not antagonistic or inconsistent; in fact they are in specific evolutionary relationships and interactive, inseparable and only defined in reference to each other. (When isolated they become dysfunctional).