Posted on 08/02/2014 7:42:18 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Throughout history man has undergone many changes, both physical and behavior. Over the years man became gentler and cooperative. According to a new study published in this month’s issue of Current Anthropology, changes in testosterone helped develop the modern society. Robert Cieri, lead author and graduate student from the University of Utah, says the transition of man into modern society, which occurred about 50 thousand years ago, was influenced by reduction in testosterone levels. The lowering of testosterone coincided with emergence of traits such as arts and use of tools such as fishing equipment and projectile weapons.
The researchers examined about 1,400 modern and ancient skulls for features such as volume, brow ridge and facial shape, they realized approximately 50,000 years ago rounder heads became common. This marked the beginning the use of advanced tools and emergence of symbolic artifacts which are the characteristics of the modern humans whose testosterone levels are lower. According to Cieri, fossils of humans after the emergence of modern behaviors have female-like faces. The difference between the old and young fossils had differences similar to the differences observed in people with lower and higher testosterone levels. Less aggression in man, cooperation and social tolerance in animals are traits associated with lower levels of the hormone. The increasing human population and the need to cooperate meant that people must be less aggressive. “If prehistoric people began living closer together and passing down new technologies, they’d have to be tolerant of each other,” Cieri said Though it’s not clear what led to decrease in testosterone levels, Cieri says that the decline enabled people to work and learn from each other which led to cultural and technological innovations. Modern-man traits began to be seen when humans had become more cooperative, which means that reduction in testosterone levels helped shape modern civilization, added Cieri.
Yes, I saw a documentary that mentioned these foxes. The pelts went from being a beautiful golden red to almost black.
Oh yeah, we’ve become so feminine, peaceful and cultured. Modern culture began at least 100,000 years ago, admittedly with an acceleration some 50,000 years ago. We don’t have the evidence to pontificate on whether or not we were terribly violent between 100,000 and 200,000 thousand years but from what we’ve found, violence from animal predators was far more likely than from each other. Neolithic man was more likely to go to war than the hunter gatherers. Yes, we were cannibals from time to time but it was the exception and not the rule.
In short, I think this study may well be PC garbage.
And rough and patchy, instead of thick and soft.
It’s interesting that adrenaline levels correlate with the great pelts. It’s been found that sheep and goats produce the finest hair, such as the real Kashmiri wool or the hair of Andean vicunas, only when they’re on the edge of survival due to minimal food, cold temperatures, and low oxygen levels.
If you take the same animal and put it in a more pleasant environment, you get lower quality hair. (The vicunas just die.)
A subcontractor sent out an hispanic guy to our jobsite yesterday that could have been doing GEICO commercials without any makeup.
I’ve never seen anyone quite like it outside of a natural history museum
Maybe for the libs who have raped our country
Beer, farming and animal husbandry led to modern man.
After that all we needed was organized sports, to live vicariously through and big screen TV.
We invented the telephone so girls could talk to each other all day long and we wouldn’t have to.
From there it was a natural decision to create the Internet and porn.
Voila’!
We’re a bunch a layzee asses and we’ll get around to that thing you want...mmmmmm....next week?
Really, lower testosterone levels have been more often seen in criminals according to research reports published during the ‘90s.
You’re kidding? Vicunas just die in pleasant environments?
Looks like a mixed bag:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9316179
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/019188699400177T
No, not kidding. They don’t reproduce, and they tend to die very quickly.
There’s been much sponsored bias behind research and reporting against families, technically inclined men, heterosexuals, non-addicts, all, over the past four decades or so—most of it about differences between classes, the sexes and the like.
Over the past decade or so, it has also adversely affected many women. Instead of reacting to it again, many of us are going to simply see where contemporary policy continues to take us. It reminds me now to switch back to unaffiliated and nonpoltical. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
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