tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794312182471569364.post5170681276630795723..comments2024-03-27T22:46:04.400-07:00Comments on The Whirlpool of Life: The Human Journey: Part 3Scott D. Sampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13536199701500758905noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794312182471569364.post-223219410588586292023-02-13T03:15:31.730-08:002023-02-13T03:15:31.730-08:00The human evolution is an extraordinary topic! I l...The human evolution is an extraordinary topic! I love to read about it. I hope there is an human history museum here in Dubai, so I can learn more about it.grzegorz186529https://www.blogger.com/profile/06276178696181567811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794312182471569364.post-76473109418104854702011-09-15T20:40:33.751-07:002011-09-15T20:40:33.751-07:00"But beware the fallacy of hindsight. Reflect..."But beware the fallacy of hindsight. Reflecting on the human journey, we must fight a powerful, largely unconscious bias to view early hominins as a succession of warm-up acts..."- Too true. As someone with a side interest in archaeology/history, i see this same hindsight attitude applied to our immediate past (in terms of geologic time). Like people looking down on the Aztecs because of their practice of human sacrifice, or condeming the bombing of Hiroshima as a "callous act of terrorism". They ignore the circumstances of the past, failing to understand the mindsets of the people living back then and instead choose to point a damning finger at them based on their own ignorance/emotions. And there are obvious examples in nature too (like marsupials: the were viewed as inferior to placental mammals back in the day).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com