Title: Evolutionary Psychology [The Human Condition]
Headings: Evolutionary Psychology
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Table of Contents
Evolutionary Psychology
What We Think
So it's all about Sex?
Selfishness, Violence and Prejudice
Internal Controversies
Discussion
The Development of Consciousness

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Discussion
charles brough, 2012/10/23 09:24, 2012/11/23 08:19
The Development of Consciousness
The Ancient Sapiens who preceded us did not have lingual speech and lived by a list of social instincts common to most small-group mammals. These instincts include the Alpha's protectiveness, that of the mother's compassion and caring for the young, the male's hunting team bonding and love-of-the-hunt, the seeking of pecking-order status, reciprocation, and others. In total, they add up to a brain-stem, small-group, social-instinct mind which still exists in us and which we sometimes now call the subconscious. As with other mammals, its will is comm-unicated through body language, guttural signals, eye contact and/or gestures. Millions of years of evolution had fitted us to exist only in the small hunting gathering groups of less than a hundred individuals each. We evolved language because living in larger groups with the ability to trap and kill larger game, or whole herds of them, served the natural selection enabling of our species to grow in numbers. However, we had to evolve speech in a special way. We had to form it into ideological systems that focused our feelings into a larger-sized “group-think” so we could fool ourselves into sensing the larger groupings as being natural to us. Since the individual is, by nature, instinctively geared to serve our smal