Introduction
Background
Historical alternations of the human evolution are depicted as an enhancement of a variety of aspects that assist the homosapien culture, health and lifestyle. Once these enhancements are implicated the primitive instincts that humans originally owned, now is slowly diminishing to a new technological and scientific approach. In more forms than one, medicine has been documented and practiced from periods of time that date back to prehistorical stages. Medicine since then has revolutionized to a further scientific based practice. A majority of society depends on the high-technological medicine to assist in their well-being. Cancer is a destructive disease that slowly destroys its occupant and extremely difficult to cure. Cancer is broken down into sub-type categories; for example: testicular, breast, lung, bowel and brain. The treatments for cancer have improved immensely over the period of the 21st century.
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“Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main past of machinery of his evolution in earlier times.”-Arthur Keith
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Present day, society develops different ways to conceal the primitive instincts of the “earlier times”. The spectrum of instincts are developed over simple concepts but revolutionized to assist individuals in understanding the genetically altering evolution. Revolutionizing the human body has become a trait, evolving the psychological and physical attributes to better improve the suppression of primitive
What evidence shows the changing from the early hominids to the modern humans? Throughout the human evolution body parts like legs and harms have changed for the better. By the early hominids being biped, meaning they are able to stand and even walk on two feet, it helped them to be able to do more things like getting around more and help with their tool making and hunting. A lot of the fossils discovered were found in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, which contained many different lakes and small rivers. For many years researchers have been finding new species. These species have been named Australopithicus, robust australopithecines , Orrorin tugenensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, neanderthal, and Homo sapiens. These early
Throughout life, many individuals experience difficulties due to growing up in everyday life. While going in depth of the human life, it is discovered that there are many diseases and disorders that affect humans’ everyday functions. A very popular disease that has traumatically affected the human body is cancer. Cancer is a disease that spreads throughout your body in many ways. The purpose of cancer is to attach to a blood cell in your body and cause a plague within itself, causing the body to initially shut down and die. This disease contains many forms and have many causes to it. However its main goal is to destroy the human body.
Darwin and Freud’s theories both weighed heavily on the similarity between man and animal. There is a primal urge exhibited through emotion, sexual motivation and the search for pleasure as seen in Freud’s id and Darwin’s observations of adolescents. But what did these men say about censoring that primal behaviour to live in harmony with others? It appears that Darwin had an influence over Freud’s explanation of morality as well.
Paleopathological findings indicate the presence of tumors through animals well before prehistoric times. Steven Hajdu explains that written descriptions of cancer date back to the Egypt, Byzantine and other Indo-European civilizations where medicine men attempted to cure it using herbal remedies and did not hesitate to use concoctions of iron, copper, sulfur and mercury (1), elements known for its toxic nature. Failing to treat the diseases because of both the lack of knowledge of the human anatomy and DNA or proper equipment, they would claim that the wrath of God had struck upon the ill patient. Medicine Men of this time also did not strive to further study cancer since mortality rates were low due to lack of food, clean water and constant
As the main source of death in the United States, malignancy gets a gigantic measure of consideration from analysts and research healing centers devoted to deciding the cause and hunting down cures. Around one-portion of men and 33% of ladies will build up some kind of malignancy amid their lifetime. Confidence is vital, be that as it may, as a great many individuals are presently living disease free on account of the endeavors of scientists and the donations of individuals over the world.
The word instinct according to Cosmides and Tooby, “was used to refer (roughly) to specialized neural circuit that are common to every member of a species and are the product of that species’ evolutionary history.” This statement sums up what human nature is in technical terms.
In 1966, a group of about fifty anthropologists met in Chicago for a conference that would later known as the “Man the Hunter” meeting. The meeting contrasted with earlier scholarship and presented a Hollywood approach to the topic of early man, one where our ancestors were strong, powerful, and in control of their environment. Anthropologists Sherwood L. Washburn and C.S. Lancaster (1968), both present at the conference claimed, “our intellect, interests, emotions, and basic social life—all are evolutionary products of the success of the hunting adaptation”. The book Man the Hunter that emerged from the conference forced a re-evaluation of human subsistence strategies and the role of the hunter in human
The improvement of medicine over the course of the human successes gave great convenience to the people of today. Science has cured and prevented many illnesses from occurring and is on its way to cure some of the most dreadful and harmful illnesses. As the world modernizes due to the industrialization, so does the ways of medicine. Some cures are approached by chance, some, through intense, scientific measures.
Cavemen used skills such as hunting which provides a perfect example of a Secondary Survival Instinct. Even though we don’t have the urge to hunt our food today, we still see it prevalent in today’s society through animals (Schleifer). The difference between the survival instincts of a human compared to a wild lion in South Africa is that the “Homo sapiens have the exceptional attribute of self-awareness along with an environmental awareness that includes the social environment” (Brenner). Both cavemen and animals lead a life where survival of the fittest is the ultimate goal. Though animals and humans respond to stimuli such as hunger and thirst, humans understand why they seek strategies to overcome said stimuli and thus, their self-awareness causes rationality in their decision
Neanderthal the most recent archaic human, who was introduced to this world between 300,00 and 100,000 years ago then after many years were replaced by humans between 35,000 and 24,000 years ago. Neanderthals inhabited Eurasia from the Atlantic regions of Europe eastward to Central Asia and from as far north as present-day Belgium southward to the Mediterranean and southwest Asia.” (www.britannica.com). Human populations that were very similar to Neanderthals lived in eastern Asia and Africa. Neanderthals lived in these locations because they had many limestone caves where they lived; limestone caves also preserve bones very well. “The name Neanderthal (or Neandertal) derives from the Neander Valley near
Paul Shepard’s “Getting a Genome”, “How We Once Lived”, and “How the Mind Once Lived” in Coming Home to the Pleistocene discusses humankind’s evolutionary history and how we lived before history. “Getting a Genome” explains the key evolutionary developments of pre-humans, which included bipedality, sexual dimorphism, and speech. In relation to nature, this chapter argues that early humans did not slaughter large mammal species and push them into extinction (32). Hunting large mammals into extinction would be both a waste of time and energy, which was valuable to early humans. “How We Once Lived” describes human development and how it would have occurred in the past. The chapter also discusses the ambiguity of our genetic requirements and how
“The Emperor of All Maladies” captured the whole essence of cancer. This book gave a very good narrative of the historical record of cancer, the scientists and important public figures who contributed to the fight against a disease that has so much caused despair, pain, disfiguring of the body and worst of all, death. Cancer is seen as the abnormal growth of cells. A normal cell becomes cancerous when there is a defect in the regulation of its growth. Cancerous cells also tend to be elusive and resistant to treatments. Numerous attempts have been channeled into demystifying the nature of cancer. Some of these attempts proved abortive while a few served as a harbinger of hope. Cancer have proved to be part of our genetic makeup, hence, total eradication of it remains a future accomplishment.
There is no denying the fact that fossil records show an excellent representation of species of the past. Details of human evolution can also be identified and new discoveries are being found. Homo naledi is the most recent discovery within the Homo genus. This new discovery could potentially be a very important key in studying the evolution of the human species.
Humans, from an evolutionary standpoint, have evolved from a primitive species to the most advanced and intelligent species to inhabit the planet. However, despite our impressive advancements, we seem to be unable to break from some of the primitive instincts that we once desperately needed. Certain terms that may need to be defined for better understanding are check, instinctive, and judgment. I define check as a test or regulation to evaluate something. Instinctive is the initial or automatic response we have to certain stimuli or stresses in certain events or situations. Finally judgment is defined as the conclusion
Since the beginning of time, humans like animals, possess certain innate behaviors that both are naturally born with. For example, animals are born, taken care of and spend their life making sure they have enough food in order to survive and in the end, reproduce. Similarly, humans also possess a natural instinct to survive, consume, and reproduce in order to keep this on-going cycle alive. The comparison between humans and animals at time may disturb certain people due to the simplification and degradation of the human race. However, it is this naturalistic view in life that certain individuals believe should not be shielded from the public in order to “protect” people and instead, believe it is necessary to educate as many people possible in the reasoning and acceptance of mankind’s innate actions. The novel McTeague, written by Frank Norris, is a book that demonstrates an individual 's natural behaviors and desires which continues to be carried out by people today just as it has been since the beginning of time. It is through McTeague, that Frank Norris illustrates mankind’s naturalistic behavior that not only grabs the attention of the readers but infuriates the public as well.