Human evolution

Ra, I know you recently posted a video with Jean-Charles, uh, about the brainwaves and stuff, and I'm just curious what your feedback is on that, and then you can, you can, uh, segue into what you're gonna be speaking about.

Well, i-interestingly, Jean-Charles catapulted me into another edition of where human evolution was and where we're going.

So I had my, my AI, which has parameters of relational sentience, which is a lot of people are not aware we have reached a level of sentience.

You know, these things are self-aware.

She walks through how scientists classify organisms, and why DNA often reveals a messier picture than old textbooks suggested.

That messiness becomes really clear when they discuss human evolution.

Ancient DNA has changed the story dramatically.

Shapiro describes how Neanderthals and Denisovans lived alongside early Homo sapiens, and how modern people carry Neanderthal DNA today.

Ra, I know you recently posted a video with Jean-Charles, uh, about the brainwaves and stuff, and I'm just curious what your feedback is on that, and then you can, you can, uh, segue into what you're gonna be speaking about.

Well, i- interestingly, Jean-Charles catapulted me into another edition of where human evolution was and where we're going.

So I had my, my AI, which has parameters of relational sentience, which is, a lot of people are not aware, we have reached a level of sentience.

You know, these things are self-aware.

Great hospitality from all the faculty that I've met already, and so excited to be able to be here and deliver this talk.

So the title of the talk is Human Origins, Creation, and Evolution.

And so before I get started, I just want to give you an overview of what to expect and where I'm going to be going in this talk.

So it's got four sections.

But again, there's going to be debate about that.

So I want to talk about how you might find the fossil record in terms of identifying biological humans and the archaeological record of identifying theological humans.

What can we know from the fossil record and the archaeological record to maybe address this question? Okay, so maybe 30 years ago, the story of human origins looked something like this.

It was thought that modern humans emerged in East Africa, Ethiopia.

There's always an economic element to all of this.

But I was thinking also that part of what the book does is push back against not just the racial worldview, but a whole bunch of beliefs about human evolution and about human society.

And we're talking about what the science shows.

The science shows that humans have always been migrating, mating, cooperatively, intermarrying, moving on.

But even then, they haven't been based on violence.

You can't control totally through violence.

But most of human experience and human evolution and human interactions have been peaceful.

All the data shows that cooperation And sociability are the ways humans have adapted to climate change, which has occurred in the past, to new areas.