Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Villarreal is the director of the Center for Virus Research at the University of California at Irvine, and he's followed the implications of viral impact on human evolution to the limit.
Villarreal gives Salvador Luria, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist whose work stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s, credit for the first suggestion that viruses have helped to spark human evolution from the inside, not just the outside. In 1959, Luria wrote that the movement of viruses into genomes had the potential to create "the successful genetic patterns that underlie all living cells. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Common sense says the sun has been here for the 350,000 years of human evolution and the millions of years of pre-human evolution that created the DNA blueprint you now carry in your body. The sun was here all that time. If the sun was causing disease and killing people, do you think we would even be alive today? Of course not! We evolved and adapted as a species to live in harmony with the sun. Sunlight is present each and every day on the planet. And as beings, we evolved a genetic plan to exploit that sun to enhance our own health. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Villarreal gives Salvador Luria, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist whose work stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s, credit for the first suggestion that viruses have helped to spark human evolution from the inside, not just the outside. In 1959, Luria wrote that the movement of viruses into genomes had the potential to create "the successful genetic patterns that underlie all living cells. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Thinking like a hunter-gatherer
To understand why such foods as fish, fruits, and vegetables are good for our brains, we need to visualize ourselves along the continuum of human evolution. With the birth of agriculture approximately ten thousand years ago, and the rise of global agribusiness in the last two centuries, contemporary diets have become progressively more divergent from the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors who foraged freely for their food. |
Dan Buettner
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 He had first become interested in human evolution as a biology student at the University of Pisa, he said. That interest led him to join the laboratory of renowned geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza at Stanford, where he studied human populations by looking at their genes. His specialty was analyzing mitochondrial DNA to identify the origins of peoples—dead or alive. He had examined mummies found in China's Taklimakan Desert and revealed that they were of Indo-European origins, a discovery that had brought him fame. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Such remodeling probably happened thousands of times during human evolution.
We now know that there have been periods of such massive environmental shift it's hard to imagine random, incremental changes providing enough adaptation to let us survive. Prominent evolutionary thinkers Stephen J. Gould and Nils Eldredge advanced the theory of punctuated equilibrium—the notion that evolution was characterized by a state of general equilibrium punctuated by periods of significant change that were brought about by large environmental shifts. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Despite the dramatic changes that have occurred in our diet in the last century, the way we eat today is a mere blink of the eye in human evolution. If you've ever seen photographs of your great grandparents, I'm willing to bet that almost all of them were slim. Within two or three generations, Westerners have gone from dealing with the occurrence of starvation for a significant part of the population to experiencing obesity as a serious public health issue.
Over the past thirty years I have seen changes that scare me to death. |
Pam Montgomery
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 This is not an appropriation of an indigenous culture's customs or beliefs, but rather is a natural progression of human evolution to live within a spiritual ecology. People working and living in this way are not shamans but instead are those who practice in a shamanic way. This understanding of the term shamanic recognizes spirit as the unified whole while at the same time acknowledging the unique individual expressions of the spirits. This way of working with spirit is not a system of faith or a religion but is based on one's personal experience with the spirits. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 Jung's work focused heavily on the "unconscious," which would include the subconscious as Freud defined it, plus what Jung called "the collective unconscious," a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from man's ancestral past, including not only the history of man as a separate species but our pre-human ancestry as well, the whole history of human evolution. Jung discovered that this collective unconscious is shared by all people and is therefore universal, and he understood it to be the foundation upon which the individual subconscious mind and ego are built. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| The Descent of Woman was published in 1972, and it roundly savaged the idea that male behavior was the driving force in human evolution. Humans started walking on two legs so we could cover distances between water and food faster than we could on four legs? Yeah, right—ever race a cheetah? Even some of the slower quadrupeds can outrun us. We lost our hair because the males got too hot chasing antelope? So why do females have even less hair than males? And what about all those other hairless animals running around the savanna? Oh, right, there aren't any. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| I dug up my college thesis to try my own diet based on principles of human evolution. Using sophisticated bioassays of my blood from a renowned laboratory, I experimented with foods, supplements, and exercise. The results were amazing. I lost 50 pounds over the first year; I've since lost another 25, but more important, I restored my body's normal cellular functioning. As just one example, my LDL ("bad" cholesterol) dropped more than 100 points while my HDL ("good" cholesterol) increased 150 percent. All without drugs. My blood pressure, which was once 145/95, is now 90/50. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 One wonders that if human evolution makes so much sense, why doesn't it provide for access to ourselves naturally as we grow? Well, evolution got as far as repression and stopped. From fleeing external enemies, we developed the ability to flee the internal danger—feelings. But unfortunately, we need help to gain access. Meanwhile, we walk around each day in the survival mode—repressed.
No therapist who is left-brain contained, who is circumscribed by ideas and insights, can be trusted. |
| The brainstem was the first to evolve, and the first part of the central nervous system to develop in human evolution. Salamanders, incidentally, have pretty much the limbic system we have, in primitive form. The eminent neuroanatomist E.J. Herrick identified them as a walking, swimming, living brainstem. It seems that we never lost that part. We just added new brain tissue on top of it. When patients are down on that level, there are never any words nor adult-like screams— mostly grunts.
The brainstem leads out of the bottom, rear of the brain down through the spinal cord. |
Mike Adams
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| If you know anything about natural selection and human evolution, you know that any organism programmed to develop disease would have been unable to survive and reproduce over the hundreds and thousands of years during which human beings have evolved. Bad genes are automatically removed from the system based on the actions of natural selection. And what's left are the so-called "good genes" — the genes found in every single human being who is alive today.
So you are not some kind of genetic defect. In fact, you are a genetic champion. You are a survivor of survivors. |
Jack Challem
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 During most of human evolution, these genes posed no disadvantage, because people rarely if ever consumed grains. This situation changed approximately ten thousand years ago, when people began cultivating gluten-containing grains.
Once the widespread consumption of gluten-containing grains become common, the incidence of many diseases skyrocketed. The result was that the HLA-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8 genes were being turned on, as were abnormal immune responses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's just a blink of an eye in the scope of human history and human evolution. We are advanced beings, and we evolved through a system of natural foods, natural energy sources and highly nutritious substances in our environment that we are supposed to ingest. The closest that you can get to that today is by growing your own foods (building your own pharmaceutical factory) in your back yard. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And your DNA was designed and fine-tuned over hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution to thrive and survive in harmony with the natural environment.
You come from a long line of survivors -- people who could get erections, people who didn't die from heart disease before they could reproduce. The human body is designed for perfect health. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 To the contrary, a great deal of human evolution involved adapting to or overcoming significant threats to survival.
The key hormone that orchestrates the ability to respond to stress is Cortisol, produced by the adrenal cortex. In terms of general nonstressed function, Cortisol is highest in the morning acting as a cellular activator to "rum on the light switches" in all cells to wake up and get going for the day.
Morning fatigue or taking a long time to feel energized are common signs that Cortisol is in a poor condition. |
Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
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 History offers many examples in which the astute selection of memes greatly advanced human evolution.
In Renaissance Europe, for example, authorities in certain Italian cities did their descendants a tremendous service by authorizing a switch from Roman numerals to the new Arabic system. Before then, you had to be a genius to work out the simplest computations. Try multiplying 24 times 37. Most people today learned to do this in third grade. But if you try to multiply XXIV times XXXVII, you're in for a real challenge. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| GHRH is one of the oldest hormonal signals in human evolution. As the gene encoding GHRH evolved, its "children" became insulin, glucagon, and various other signals that affect reproduction.420 Thus, the activity of GH is intimately involved with fuel utilization and reproduction, essential features that allow survival of the species.
When GH is released by the pituitary gland, it travels to the liver where it activates a family of hormonal signals that help carry out repair in the body. True to the family tree, these signals look almost identical to insulin. |
Byron J. Richards
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 The Problem of Pleasure
During human evolution there was frequently a scarcity of food, and it required considerable energy to hunt, gather, or otherwise acquire food. Thus, brain wiring developed at least ten signals that promote eating for every one signal that says to stop eating. Our brain wiring is highly tilted toward acquiring food.
Pleasure is associated with food intake. This is a survival instinct. Even when a person doesn't have a lot of energy, he or she still needs to spend energy to acquire food in order to survive. |
David Wolfe
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 The discoverer, Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras, stated, "It is so surprising we must rethink human evolution to fit that face." Discover magazine stated: "The Gran Dolina face is 800,000 years old and yet distinctively ours. It is almost that of a modern human."
The evidence is showing and will continue to show that all the Homo forms have existed together for thousands - or millions - of years without the gradual evolution through common ancestry concept. |
Michele Simon
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 For the first hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, our ancestors struggled to scrape together enough food just to survive. Because in nature foods high in salt, sugar, and fat were also high in nutrients and calories, we evolved to seek out these flavors. Since food was so scarce, we also evolved to store excess calories as fat. Humans are hardwired to prepare for famine. Humans who survived the hard times—by storing fat efficiently—were rewarded with longevity and passed their "thrifty genes" on to their children. |
Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
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| In fact, breeding is over 10 million years out of date as an efficient engine of human evolution. Since the development of the cerebral cortex and its unique capacity to form and transmit ideas, memes, not genes, have provided the most powerful stimulus for change.
SMART DRUGS
Of course, many promising methods for enhancing intelligence are physiological, not meme tic. These techniques improve the hardware into which the memetic software is downloaded. |
| Dart discovered Australopithecus, an important missing link in human evolution. His institute now studies general human development. It has found, from intensive study of cultures at all levels of complexity, that those tribes whose infants creep and crawl tend to have more complex societies, higher technology, and some form of written language. Most tribes that restrict their infants from crawling have no writing of their own and can be taught to read only with great difficulty. Moreover, people raised in such tribes have remarkable difficulty focusing their eyes at arm's length? |
Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson
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 Early Arabic and European records
Humans have always used plants in a multitude of ways in a tradition spanning human evolution. The selection of medicinal plants is a conscious process which has led to an enormous number of medicinal plants being used by the numerous cultures of the world.
An early European example is medicinal mushrooms, which were found with the Austrian/Italian 'iceman' of the Alps of Otztal (3300 BCE). Two walnut-sized objects were identified as the birch polypore (Piptoporus betuli-nus), a bracket fungus common in alpine and other cooler environments. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 It is thought that being able to identify sweet things played a critical role in human evolution.98 Our love for calorie-rich sugary foods ensured we would choose them and thus be provided with the energy we needed to get through the next famine. The sweet taste also enabled our ancestors to distinguish between viable sustenances and bitter items like poisonous plants.
Two research teams fishing through the human and mouse genomes think they may have caught the sweet-tooth gene. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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Jeremy P. Tarcher
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 Communism, socialism, and fascism have failed. human evolution has finally triumphed in the best system we can create: global corporate capitalism, in which everyone stands to benefit from the creativity and wealth it unleashes.
THREE: PUTTING TOOLS IN THEIR PLACE, TAPPING THE SAVVY OF CITIZENS
Now we can turn technologies— even the market itself—into tools, not tyrants. Scientific tools can help us—but only when citizens draw values boundaries for their application. |
| We are returning to the horizontal relationships that existed among human beings for most of human evolution," Ury writes.23
In our paradoxical era, however, this growing energy among executives to "flatten" corporate hierarchies, giving decision-making latitude to managers and even line workers, is matched ironically by a tightening of control over workers in other ways. Corporate leaders fight unions, cut benefits, and link reward ever more directly to output, propelled by both the fear of losing out and by the compulsion for personal accumulation that globalization fuels. |
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