This document contains a collection of activities and resources related to the evolution and development of upright walking in our species
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Human Evolution Resources Mental Time Travel As we look more closely at our perception and thinking, we may find that we are quite often “somewhere else”. We may be physically sitting in the room, walking down the street, or lying in bed, but in our minds we are wandering around in time and space: we
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Human Evolution Resources Fast and Slow Thinking As we look more closely at our perception and thinking, we find that some of it is quite automatic and effortless. Other situations require our conscious concentration and make us tired very quickly. So solving the equation “2 + 2” feels quite differently to us from solving the
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A worksheet on which students collect information on a specific fossil hominin
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Human Evolution Resources Moral Intuitions A basic insight of social psychology is that our beliefs and attitudes about ethical-moral issues are largely influenced by “fast thinking“. People tend to quickly decide what is morally “right” and “wrong” through intuition and emotion, and only then, through conscious, rationalizing thinking, to find reasons that support their initial
Psychologists Louise Hayes and Joseph Ciarocchi have developed the DNA-V model. It contains the metaphors of the “Discoverer“, “Noticer“, “Advisor” and the “Valuer”, to help humans be aware of, make use of, and practice different skills towards valued living.
This activity lets students explore the six different values domains by considering why we humans might have evolved to find these areas of life meaningful and important, and what kinds of different things we can do to live towards these valued domains.
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Students learn about the concept of evolutionary mismatch and apply it to various problems of sustainable development.
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An experiment in which researchers wanted to examine the role of teaching and communication in the transmission of toolmaking.
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Students explore the concept of cultural evolution by comparing it to genetic evolution based on a number of concepts, and explore why cultural evolution is so important in our species.
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