Human Intellect, a social outcome

Humans have been struggling for survival in his biologic and social environment
through natural selection. How they produce and distribute goods is part of natural
selection within human evolution out of an ecological point of view.

Man has been a tribal animal since he first walked erect many years ago.Yet, as he was then a bipedal, he could not climb easily on trees or run faster than predators. Therefore, it was only through tribal mutual cooperation that he could prevent something dangerous or bag from damaging him, his offspring or his siblings.

For two million years, early hominids were primarily herd herbivore animals. During the next two million years, somehow more skilful, they were herd hunting warriors. Furthermore, humans were and still are instinctive animals as all of their social drivers had developed long before they developed intellectually.Thus, instincts as mother/father-love, compassion, cooperation, curiosity, inventiveness, competitiveness and mate are innate in humans.These intrinsic human feelings and behaviors were all necessary for the survival of humans and pre-humans within the environment.

The intellect, what distinguishes humans from other animals, developed slowly during the entire four million years or more of human span as a control over in
stincts to provide adaptable behavior.

In fact, social environment has been shaping humans into behavior and social interaction, and today, due to our intellect and culture, we modify or better our own environment to prevent inappropriate consequences from occurring.

Thus, the process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes.

It's refreshing to say that Darwin's natural selection is the process by which nature rewards those humans who better adapted to their environments, either naturally or culturally (social), with survival and reproductive success.

Unfortunately, drastic social processes such as too long revolutionary events affect negatively human evolution and human natural and cultural selection.

Freedom and Education

 

Freedom and Education

Freedom, something endowed by God, is part of human condition. It is the most important part of it as people need freedom to grow and proliferate unperturbedly.

Many years ago, people came to what is today America, the New World, seeking freedom, the mother of happiness, safety and growth. They were fleeing a land in Europe where they had been oppressed and deprived of religious creed.

As a matter of fact, when people are free, they enjoy of important and less important emancipations, prerogatives or privileges because, in a context of liberty, people are able to establish a sort of compact or social contract, a system of rules and norms, to maintain order and respect on other people's emancipations, prerogatives or privileges; what would guarantee other subsequent rights, such as those to elect their representatives to make sure their rights would not be violated, and their safety and properties would be protected.

Needless to say that under an atmosphere of freedom, people have not only the rights of credo (creed) and aquality, along with those of creating and running business through their own way for growing economically in an environment of free market and investment, but also the rights towards intruction and education for self-potential.

Unfortunetely, however, freedom can be taken away. Therefore, education is an important aspect of freedom that may prevent this latter from being disturbed or disrupted. Thus, education, if it is considered freedom's frame, should be an accessible right for all to guarantee freedom or human emancipation cognitively.


Angel R. Almagro