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    The Human Niche
    The Human Niche
    The Human Niche
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    The Human Niche

    By Razie Mah

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    Why is the current story of human evolution so dissatisfying?
    The answer is simple. It is not adequate.
    To date, modern biological theories are built on the idea that adaptation responds to material advantage or causation, rather than the potential of an actuality independent of the species. Consequently, biological anthropologists focus on diverse proximate niches, rather than an ultimate niche, in their inquiry into human evolution.
    Now, this work steps from the current fixation with a proposal that turns the focus around. The ultimate human niche is the potential of triadic relations. Proximate niches solve specific problems that arise in exploiting the ultimate niche.
    Modernism hangs its fortune on the star of materiality. Modernism examines only the visible world. But look, triadic relations are not material. They entangle the material. But, the material world does not explain them.
    Signs, mediations, category-based nested forms and judgments are not visible. They are unseen. Yet, they are the reason that we are here.
    Here is a satisfactory story of human evolution.
    For science, it proposes an ultimate niche. It shows how the idea fits (what we know about) the fossil record. It also suggests a way to model langue, one of the systems of differences in language.
    For the believer, the ultimate niche cannot be locked away in the box of materiality. The star of modernism falls. Triadic relations cannot be seen. The moon of modernism moves from fullness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateFeb 6, 2018
    ISBN9781942824428
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      The Human Niche - Razie Mah

      The Human Niche

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2018

      Notes on Text

      This proposal builds on four recent books on human evolution. Comments on these books may be found in The Human Niche series.

      A Primer on Natural Signs serves as an introduction to this work. A personal rendition of two suras of the Qur’an open and close the text. These portals remind me that human evolution, like the stars and moon, is more than an exercise in cause and effect. It is also a sign.

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Prerequisites: Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form (#1), Primer on Sensible and Social Construction (#2), A Primer on Natural Signs (#14), plus Comments on Michael Cole and Martin Packer’s Essay (2016) A Bio-Cultural Historical Approach to Culture and Psychology.

      Table of Contents

      My Rendition of Sura 53

      Remember the Prerequisites

      The Hypothesis

      Building on Mithen’s Insights

      Building on Gamble, Gowlett and Dunbar’s Approaches

      Building on the Bickerton and Chomsky Debates

      My Rendition of Sura 54

      Behold the Star

      0001 In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

      0002 Near the garden of the Refuge stands the Lote Tree of the Boundary. This was the second descent. Perhaps, the servant does not understand the first. Doesn’t everyone place his oath on Sirius, the star? Your companion has not gone astray. He witnesses one of the greatest signs of his Lord. The star, burdened by oaths, falls.

      0003 Have you seen the pagan goddesses in their shrines? Pray to one for a male child. Pray to another for a female. How ridiculous is that? God did not create these. Perhaps, they are angels. The names that our ancestors gave them are conjectures. Conjectures! Those who claim to know go astray. Only God knows who is rightly guided.

      0004 Everything in the heavens and everything on earth belongs to God, who will repay evil with evil and good with good. He knows about you. He produced you from the earth, as embryos in the bellies of your mothers.

      0005 Who has knowledge of the unseen? Is it he who focuses on material causation, revealing our world through controlled experiments? Is it he who, after reading the pages of Moses and Abraham, pays his debt? A person receives only what he strives for. God sees. He pays for our knowledge of the unseen.

      0006 God is the ultimate goal, causing laughter, weeping, death and life. He created male and female from a drop, emitting… The second growth relies on Him. He enriches with power and wealth. He is the Lord above Sirius, destroying Ad of old, Thamud. He destroys the people at the time of Noah, covering the evil and insolent transgressors with mud.

      What did I not understand at first? Look how Sirius falls.

      0007 This man is a warrior, like those of old. My words are spoken amidst the diverse amusements of a people, laughing at all they see, ignorant of the unseen. They load Sirius, the star, with debt. How great will be its fall. I cannot stand before the Lord. Standing, my pockets and my heart are weighted with cash and promises. Prostate, my pockets bulge with worthless paper and my heart is troubled.

      Look how Sirius falls.

      Remember the Prerequisites

      0008 This work is an inquiry into the unseen. It speculates on origins. It draws from recent books on human evolution by well-known authors, offering an elegant solution to the question: What is the human niche?

      0009 Commentaries on four books serve as a foundation. Each book, in its own way, tells the story of the seen. After all, each author of these four books claims the mantle of science. Science requires observation. Data about humans and fossils must be examined and explained. However, these activities presume a hypothesis, a principled guess concerning human evolution.

      0010 What do I mean by the term evolution?

      The word evolution is a placeholder, an element in a system of differences, reflecting the nature of specialized language. But, I wonder, what is the term evolution different from? Surely, it differs from stasis. Is that enough? I think not, because it also differs from erosion.

      Most biologists know what the term evolution refers to. Or, so they think. Under persistent questioning, rigorous definitions turn to mush. Then, biologists fall back to

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