Tag Archives: chimpanzees

Emotional Fossils – II – “too harsh for a human being”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

Having determined that the various mental illnesses were all reflective of evolved segments of normal emotion, and that the majority of these illness – the anxiety and depression disorders – reflected motivation by aversion to the fears of separation and … Continue reading →

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Monogamy: Ardi and the Ants

Posted on February 1, 2012 by J.V. Wylie

Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed Ardi, is arguably the most significant fossil find in the history of paleoanthropology due to its completeness and antiquity – 4.4 M. years, just 1.6 M. years after the last common ancestor with Chimpanzees.  The theoretician of … Continue reading →

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