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Warm Land Surface Temperatures And Eastern Asian Homo, Robert Patalano, Hong Yang
Warm Land Surface Temperatures And Eastern Asian Homo, Robert Patalano, Hong Yang
Biological and Biomedical Sciences Department Faculty Journal Articles
Climate change and hominin evolution are inextricably linked. Pleistocene climate variability, for example, is thought to have had major influences on hominin morphology, brain size, and diversity. However, clear cause-and-effect relationships between specific climatic events and major evolutionary occurrences are difficult to establish due to temporal and spatial gaps in paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, and archaeological records. A new branched GDGT paleotemperature record from the Lantian Basin of Central China (Lu et al., 2022), a location known for the earliest hominin presence in East Asia, illustrates warm land surface temperatures over a two-million-year period between 2.6 and 0.6 Ma, a critical time …
Revisiting The Mind- Body Paradox: Can Brain Functioning Explain Moral Reasoning?, Brianna Mahan
Revisiting The Mind- Body Paradox: Can Brain Functioning Explain Moral Reasoning?, Brianna Mahan
Honors Projects in Science and Technology
With this paper, I attempt to explore possible neural correlates of morality. We define morality as the one part, structure, or process of the brain that could be linked to an innate ability to understand and determine right versus wrong. An understanding of right of right and wrong can provide us with a sense of guilt and empathy for an action or another person. Right and wrong will be defined through a primarily Judeo-Christian perspective, as it was the principle respondent among our questionnaire. There is a possibility for differences among other religions. For that reason, we expect the neural …