culture, anth, philosophy and science

the smells that distinguish one person’s scent from another’s are not pheromones. Indeed, despite the existence of pheromone parties where singletons sniff each other’s clothes, or pheromone sprays that are marketed as aphrodisiacs, it’s still unclear if human pheromones even exist. Despite decades of searching, none have been identified.[*15]

Siempre todo ha tenido que ver con la identidad. La identidad es el subconjunto de rasgos que contrastan y siempre ha existido, no es posible vivir sin fenómenos identitarios. Yo creo hay una parte de la gente que para quitarle el estatus político a estas categorías las llama políticas identitarias. Pero un asunto de la colonización se trató de lo

Conversely, Greek and Spanish speakers tend to measure time by referring to physical quantities, such as a “ small break” or a “ big holiday”. The flow of time is perceived as a growing volume, rather than a distance traveled.

It was believed that at this time the veil between this world and the spirit world was at its thinnest – allowing the spirits of the dead to pass through and mingle with the living. The sacred energy of the rituals, it was believed, allowed the living and the dead to communicate, and gave Druid priests and Celtic shamans heightened perception.

In 1970 Wamsutta, known as Frank James, was the leader of the Wampanoag, in the year of the 350th anniversary of the Mayflower's sailing.

James had been invited to a Thanksgiving state dinner to mark the anniversary, as part of a celebration that embraced the misleading schoolbook narrative of the Pilgrims’ relationship with the Wampanoag that

Quizá nosotros sepamos a qué nos referimos cuando creamos la etiqueta, pero si no conservamos la oportunidad de definirla con meticulosa pulcritud, al lector le pesará más el significado habitual de la palabra escogida que el concepto que pretende atajarse.

They also lived in greater harmony with nature. We know too that even more modern societies that were once considered “primitive” such as Indigenous North Americans, Aborigines, Andean societies, were very philosophical and had highly complex cultures

Rapa Nui, which sits nearly 2,400 miles (3,800 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, was settled by humans between 1150 and 1280. Although Europeans arrived in the 18th century, they didn't notice the local glyph-based script until 1864, which now exists on only 27 wooden objects, none of which are still on the island. Catholic missionaries took four

So basically what happened was, people proposed alternative definitions. Ernst Mayr, for example, he was one of the main architects of this modern synthesis, and probably the one who wrote the most about species and species concepts. And for him, they had to be intrinsically reproductively isolated. Once the lineages reached that point where they