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What is Neoteny?
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Video ExplanationMy new book...
Evolution, Autism
& Social Change
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for FREEThirteen Things
You'll Find Here- A feminine theory of evolution with estrogen controlling the timing of events.
- A theory of autism that also explains the origin and evolution of normal human split consciousness (theory of mind).
- Art and play are elevated to become central to evolution.
- An integration of Darwin's 3 theories: natural selection, sexual selection & pangensis
- Biological evolution and social change are joined and reframed as part of an identical process.
- Teleology, a large scale social trend, is described as a social structure concept.
- The environment and social structure are elevated to become central to evolution and social transformation.
- Human migration patterns emerge as influential in cerebral development.
- Mating two humans with only very distant ancestors (50,000 year gaps) can create autism and/or forms of hybrid vigor.
- Evolution evolves. This site describes how the actual structures of evolution have transformed.
- Female infanticide is redefined as a powerful stabilizing force in patrifocal social structure.
- A century of dropping puberty onset is reducing cerebral synapses & diminishing spiritual experience.
- Understanding autism we discover the etiologies of a number of currently mysterious diseases and conditions.
What this boils down to is this. The Orchestral Theory of Evolution is the study of the rates and timing of maturation with testosterone levels impacting rate and estrogen levels controlling timing, with those environmental or social structure adjustments that influence levels of testosterone and estrogen determining the speed, timing, features and direction of evolution.
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Thank you for this, Andrew. It looks like an amazing research work and also ground-breaking new exploration and observations into the mysteries of human evolutionary progress. (I will have to replay this introduction many times before I attempt to read the text)
The book sounds fascinating and I look forward to reading it.What you say about neoteny strikes me right away because I have long found this an especially interesting as[ect of the evolutionary process–it explains so much–but of course I was thinking strictly of biology. However, one of my characters in an unpblished (and unpublishable) novel likes to think of this process as going beyond the purely biological. I didn’t write this seriously (at least, I thought of it as just a casual remark by a character who is smart but a bit of a smartass)–however, all of a sudden I see that it has far greater ramifications (and maybe that character was smarter than I realized); what you say sounds convincing as well as interesting. It’s also an exciting idea, suggesting an exciting destiny, or continuous path, for humanity (so long as we don’t poison ourselves first or blow ourselves up). Thanks for the video as well as the announcement and, most of all, the book itself.
I hope you got my comment (I just sent it).
I can’t dance :'(
I am more convinced by the memetic explanation proposed by Dawkins and Blackmore.
Brain evolution being driven by the necessity to imitate action, then to imitate imitation. Consequently larger brains become preferred by mates >> neoteny
I thought the video was very interesting. I reminded me of something I read by Joseph Campbell in one of his books. I think maybe it was “The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” He had made a comment about how one of the key attributes of mankind was how we staid in the early learning stage much longer than any other mammal (I’m paraphrasing).
Ben, I don’t think Neoteny contradicts Dawkins or Blackmore. I don’t think it has to be an either/or kind of thing.
I am curious how female birth control is affecting the timing of estrogen, as well as women choosing to have babies much later in life. Also, how pornography through oxytocin is affecting the testosterone levels of men, and if you know at all how that will alter our future evolution.