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www.historytoday.com/archive/foundations/arachne-and-minerva

The Greek philosopher and mathematician was the first person to have the idea that all the workings of the material universe are expressible in terms of mathematics.

Recapitulation theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

“four score and seven years ago” After DeFrancis, 1989 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis

An 1851 editorial cartoonist imagines an overcrowded London in the future. th British essyist Thomas Malthus raised the possible dangers of overpopulation; his ideas helped Darwin formulate his ideas of natural selection

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FIGURE 7.2 The marriage of business and genius. Henry Ford and his friend Thomas Edison. Culver Pictures / Art Archive of Art Resource, New York.

Portraits of the head of Government should not exceed a postage stamp size. ~ Valdimir Nabakov

Figure 3-2 : A highly simplified modern version of the tree of life, emphasizing the diversification of species from a common ancestor. In this radial version no species occupies a privileged position. Courtesy of Dr. David Hillis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hillis

Invasion of the land. An early lobe-finned fish from about 385 million years ago; a land dwelling tetrapod from Greenland, about 365 million years ago; and the transitional form’Tiktaalik roseae,’ from Ellesmere Island, about 375 million years ago. The intermediacy of Tiktaalik’s body form is mirrored by the intermediacy of its limbs, which have a bone structure in between that of the sturdy fins of the lobe-finned fish and the even sturdiest walking mammals: the bone with darkest shading will become our humerus, and the medium- and light-shaded bones will become the radius and ulna, respectively.

Existentialism Is a Humanism www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm

At a presynaptic terminal (top) small vesicles twenty or thirty nanometers in diameter filled with neurotransmitter molecules are waiting. Arrival of an action potential (or spike) induces a fusion of the membrane with some of the vesicles so that a neurotransmitter can diffuse into the synaptic cleft and reach receptors (not shown) at the other side, which then open ion channels they are attached to. A synapse becomes more or less efficient, like when vesicles get bigger or smaller, or more or fewer release sites become available, while postsynaptically the ion channels may increase or decrease iun number and stay open during a longer or shorter period of time. So most, though not all, of the active processes are happening in the pre- and postsynaptic membrane. The result is called learning. (Image courtesy of Synaptic Corporation Aurora, Colorado, United States; www.synapticuse.com)

I claim we anthropomorphize because guessing that the world is humanlike is a good bet. It is a bet because the world is uncertain , ambiguous, and in need of interpretation. It is a good bet because the most valuable interpretation usually are those that disclose the presence of the whatever is mot important to us. That usually is other humans. ~ Page 3 (intro) There are two standard explanations of anthropomorphism: that it comforts us and that it consists in using our good knowledge of ourselves to account for what we know less well. Although each explanation has some truth, neither is sufficient. Comfort does not explain anthropomorphism well because much anthropomorphism is uncomfortable. Reliance on self-knowledge does not explain it well either, because our knowledge of ourselves is no more reliable than knowledge of what is not ourselves. - Page 6 Anthropomorphism in Philosophy and Science, shows that anthropomorphism occurs even among philosophers and scientists, although they are its most consistent critics. Scientists in particular try to avoid it, but they must make a constant effort. Its cause here appears the same as elsewhere: we strive to understand our world by pursuing important possibilities, and humanlike forms and behaviors are the most important ones we know. ~ Page 7