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James MacAllister replied to the topic Big History's anthropocentric bias in the forum my forum new one 12 years, 3 months ago
My original point was made in reference to Big History and its claim that it is science-based. That may be the intention, but it is obvious that there is a decidedly anthropocentric bias by Big Historians which is unscientific. Unlike religions, that each start with certainty in their Truth(s), science is a search for truth which acknowledges…[Read more]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, Hypersea – Life on Land 12 years, 3 months ago
Expanding the view of the father of biogeochemistry, Vladimir Vernadsky (The Biosphere), the McMenamins advance a systems view of the colonization of the land through deep time that they term the Hypersea […]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, Slide 1: Modern Synthesis compared to New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory. 12 years, 3 months ago
A comparison of key points of the Modern Synthesis compared to the New Symbiotic Biology and Gaia Theory which highlight the radical shift in biology and evolution.
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, Slide 2: Modern Synthesis compared to New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory 12 years, 3 months ago
A comparison of key points of the Modern Synthesis compared to the New Symbiotic Biology/Gaia Theory which highlight the radical shift in biology and evolution.
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James MacAllister replied to the topic Big History's anthropocentric bias in the forum my forum new one 12 years, 3 months ago
Our anthropocentricity is ingrained and often goes unrecognized since it is part of the unquestioned framework with which each of us views the world. The Modern Synthesis view of evolution which has been the stuff of textbooks since the 40’s is based in a big-like-us, post-Cambrian timeframe which ignores 80% of the history of life on Earth and…[Read more]
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James MacAllister started the topic Big History's anthropocentric bias in the forum my forum new one 12 years, 3 months ago
“In a time–lapse movie of the history of Earth, all the action takes place in the final split second.” Not.
I grant you that the “he” in his-story is about mankind, but I would argue that a scientifically-based view of deep time, Earth and the biosphere in which we are embedded would not reverse the Copernican Revolution by mistakingly placing u…[Read more]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, Expanding Lynn Margulis' View: A New Symbiotic Biology Part 2 12 years, 3 months ago
Scott F. Gilbert, Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki, delivers the Ninth Annual Sinauer Associates Distinguished Scientist Lecture on the new “holobiont” model of biology at […]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, Expanding Lynn's View: A New Symbiotic Biology Part 1 12 years, 3 months ago
Scott F. Gilbert, Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki, delivers the Ninth Annual Sinauer Associates Distinguished Scientist Lecture on the new “holobiont” model of biology at […]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, A New View of Evolution Part 2 12 years, 3 months ago
“A New View of Evolution” by James MacAllister, evolution geographer, UMass-Amherst discusses the New Symbiotic (Integrative) Biology, symbiosis, symbiogenetics and Gaia Theory at the Geographic Thought session of […]
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James MacAllister wrote a new post, A New View of Evolution Part 1 12 years, 3 months ago
“A New View of Evolution” by James MacAllister, evolution geographer, UMass-Amherst discusses the New Symbiotic (Integrative) Biology, symbiosis, symbiogenetics and Gaia Theory at the Geographic Thought session of […]
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James MacAllister became a registered member 12 years, 8 months ago
