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Wat Moet Ons Met Ons Kerk Doen? is 'n poging om te probeer verstaan waar ons as Afrikaners teologies vandaan kom, watter kragte en magte ons en ons Kerk gevorm het en hoe ons Kerk tans daar uitsien.
Die N.G.Kerk was 'n belangrike en rigtinggewende rolspele in die opheffing van die Afrikaner na die Britse vergrype tydens en na die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog. Tans word die N.G.Kerk ervaar as 'n instansie wat ongevoelig teenoor die geestelike behoeftes van haar lidmate staan.
Hierdie is 'n moet-lees boek vir:
- Lidmate wat ons Kerk graag wil help om 'n gesonde, geestelike tuiste vir Suid-Afrikaners van die 21ste eeu te bied.
- Die klakkelose napraters van die dogma wat dink ons Kerk is steeds op die regte pad.
- Die plastiekpredikante van die radio en televisie wat met eentonige reëlmaat soetsappige, sogenaamd godsdienstige, pleisters plak.
- Diegene wat reeds ons Kerk tot die ashoop van die geloof verdoem het.
In this deep examination of functional morphology, a renowned
paleoanthropologist offers a new way to investigate human evolution
through the fossil record. It is common for two functional
anatomists to examine the exact same fossil material, yet argue
over its evolutionary significance. How can this be? Traditionally,
paleoanthropology has interpreted hominin fossil morphology by
first considering the ecological challenges hominins faced, then
drawing adaptive inferences based on the idea that skeletal
morphology is largely a reflection of paleoecology. In Functional
Inference in Paleoanthropology, innovative paleoanthropologist
David J. Daegling suggests that researchers can resolve dichotomous
interpretations of the fossil record by instead focusing on the
biology and development of the bones themselves-such as measurable
responses to deformations, stresses, and damage. Critically
exploring how scientists probe and interpret fossil morphology for
behavioral and adaptive inferences, Daegling makes the case that an
intelligible science of functional morphology in the fossil record
is impossible without the inclusion of this mechanobiological
perspective. Drawing on historical examples from long-standing
debates on the emergence of bipedality and the dietary shifts that
facilitated the emergence of the hominin clade, Daegling traces the
disjunctions between theoretical principles of comparative
morphology and methodological practice in the paleontological
context of human evolution. Sharing rich findings from recent
decades of research in skeletal biomechanics, Functional Inference
in Paleoanthropology examines how bone adapts over the lifespan,
what environmental factors influence its quality, and how
developmental constraints limit the skeleton's adaptive potential
over evolutionary time.
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