![]() ![]() We think of it linearly and hierarchically. We speak of 'life cycles' in other connections, but we do not think cyclically about human life. We take it for granted that adulthood is the meaningful part of our existence, and everything prior to it is merely preparation. If we are asked to envisage an archetypal human being. However, one form of unconscious bias is still operative. To a large extent this has been corrected. ![]() ![]() The Descent of the Child: Human Evolution from a New Perspective - Elaine MorganĮlaine Morgan continues her outside-the-archetype thinking so strikingly begun in The Descent of Woman (1972) in The Descent of the Child: Human Evolution from a New Perspective, she presents still more surprises, under our feet as it were.Ī generation ago it was still common for books about the evolution of our species to be based on the tacit assumption that the archetypal human being was a male. ![]()
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