06-27-2014, 06:47 PM
Why is biology even a factor in this debate. In every previous thread that posters have called shenanigans on Hygate's theories, the issues were never human physiology, but social and cultural changes. That's the issue that Mark always ignores, making believe that Europe, let alone the world, hasn't changed in 5,000 years. Because modern Britian is all about non-stop wars of conquest, slavery, and the butchering of ones enemies.
Mark Hygate wrote:
I assure you I am assuming nothing at all - except for a simple anthropological base assumption - that 'man' has not changed appreciably at all in over 5,000 years of recorded history - we are just the same animals as then. (Teasing aside - except perhaps to note that, overall, it is likely that we are currently de-evolving as a species in Darwinian terms for the first time).
From Wiki:
"Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences."
These things changed a bit in 5,000 years.
Mark Hygate wrote:
I assure you I am assuming nothing at all - except for a simple anthropological base assumption - that 'man' has not changed appreciably at all in over 5,000 years of recorded history - we are just the same animals as then. (Teasing aside - except perhaps to note that, overall, it is likely that we are currently de-evolving as a species in Darwinian terms for the first time).
From Wiki:
"Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences."
These things changed a bit in 5,000 years.
