{"id":6359,"date":"2023-05-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:38:51","slug":"looking-at-heather-heying-and-bret-weinsteins-book-2020-a-hunter-gatherers-guide-to-the-21st-century-part-12-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;A Hunter Gatherer&#8217;s Guide to the 21st Century&#8221; (Part 12 of 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0069 Chapter three (Ancient Bodies, Modern World) completes the author&#8217;s theoretical approach, which has been critiqued, using the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.&nbsp;&nbsp;The authors are not aware of&nbsp;<em>a novel vision that encompasses their view that biological evolution involves adaptation into proximate niches of material conditions<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The ultimate human niche<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the potential of triadic relations<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why are hominins capable of switching proximate niches?&nbsp;&nbsp;All proximate niches are perfused with signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heying and Weinstein are not alone in this regard.&nbsp;&nbsp;Few modern biologists (before 2023) have considered Razie Mah&#8217;s three masterworks,&nbsp;<em>The Human Niche<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>An Archeology of the Fall<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>How To Define the Word &#8220;Religion&#8221;<\/em>, that pertain to&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>the first singularity<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, even without a well-articulated theoretical framework, Heying and Weinstein can draw lessons from biological evolution as it is currently configured, as if adaptations<sub>2H<\/sub>&nbsp;and phenotypes<sub>2V<\/sub>&nbsp;belong to the separate disciplines of natural history and genetics, and no one is quite sure how they belong to a single actuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, disciplinary knowledge in biological evolution is superior to advocacy, in the same manner that a professor is superior to an instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0070&nbsp;<em>Our bodies<\/em>&nbsp;evolved in&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our modern world in the 21st century<\/em>&nbsp;is a hypernovel episode of&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;<em>lessons from our biological evolution<\/em>&nbsp;will show&nbsp;<em>how our modern world is not so good for our ancient bodies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0071 The remaining chapters contain applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter four (medicine) applies guidance to the topic of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide29.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide29-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Figure 29<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And, the cultural intersection looks like the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Slide30.png 600w, 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