Autor: Purcell, Brendan M.

Buch: The Drama of Humanity

Titel: The Drama of Humanity

Stichwort: Paläontologie, Daten, Evolution, Interpretation, Aristoteles, Voegelin

Kurzinhalt: Fehler der falschen Konkretheit u. Abhängigkeit; Hypostasierung d. Stufen: biochemisch, zoologisch; Gene-Menschenaffen; keine Entsprechung von DNA und Anatomie

Textausschnitt: () ... fallacy of misplaced concreteness ... fallacy of misplaced dependence
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'Our genes are for 99 per cent of their length, the same as those of the apes. Our bodies are the bodies of infant apes. Our minds, however, which do set us a little way apart from the apes, seem unable to accept this information.'
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Could it be that, like 'primitive' myths, theories of human evolution reinforce the value systems of their creators by reflecting historically their image of themselves and of the society in which they live? Time and again, ideas about human origins turn out on closer examination to tell us as much about the present as about the past, as much about our own experiences as about those of our remote ancestors.