Our species origin has its roots in ancestral habits, behaviors and
survival drive, through changing environmental conditions, and
crystallized during millennia in basic neurobehavioral circuits, be
it as predators or potential prey: we were not born in a
mother-of-pearl cradle and protected by magic agents. Placed on the
thread of time, modern cultural contexts: norms, priorities, values
-- appear as "newly born". This bio-cultural interaction and
"dystopia" carved our identity, genetic expression and the possible
origin of beliefs, resulting in an arch of possible behaviors and
cultural phenotypes. This book offers evidence -- as a way to
acquire conscience -- of evolutive grounds and socio-cultural
ecology upon which our brain organisation and behavioral constructs
derived. Among those, shared basic behavioral drives with non-human
primates. The biological nature of our construction drags
millenniums of species trials with variable rates of survival
times. They provide traces of a variable and multiple evolutive
chains. The emergence of humans with a sophisticated language
allowed the development of complex virtual constructs based on
symbolism and the instruments of culture, which has enhanced
cognitive capacity and emotional interaction supported by processes
anchored in neural networks distributed within cortical and
subcortical levels. Basic, essential neural connectivities were
preserved during the evolutionary development of the species. Which
and how much of our current drives -- individually and as a global
communitya are driven by ancestral, inherited traits imprinted in
our animal condition? This issue pertains to our identity as a
species, our social constructions, and ecological interaction. The
biological (animal) matrix and inheritance are usually segregated
from the social and cultural construction. Although sophistication
of our cultural development tends to "set up a divisive fault" from
our animal condition, primitive foundations of non-human animal
behavior (survival, territory, reproduction, prevalence, access to
nutrients) are basic templates and underlie essential individual
and group basic drives and cultural constructs. Humans have not
ceased from being territorial (whether applied to virtual or
material dimensions). In our time and through human history various
forms of social inequities were expressed. On evolutive terms, the
notion of individual "social status" within the social structure
(rights, priorities) in a gregarious community with hierarchical
organization, generated the probability of an individual ascending
or descending the hierarchy within the said organization: the
potential figure of leader or the subordinate or marginalized. Is
there an evolutive antecedent for human social inequities? How to
construct a different future? Post-industrial societies became
increasingly dependent on material consumerism and technological
cultures to the point of "embraining" them, conceptually becoming
technological hybrids. It represents a developmental "must" or an
uncontrolled "spin-off" of human inventiveness, affecting our
future? It ought to be taken conscience of, at the social and
political level. Construction of supernatural agents played a
significant role in socialization/domestication processes. Agents
with intentionality flourished through altered states of conscience
or under fear from natural phenomena, or attributed to supposed
inhabitants of the Natural Kingdom or virtual beings. This
imaginary universe, reinforced by ritual behaviors, contributed to
control personal/collective distress of various possible origins,
and conditioned our "degrees of emotional and cognitive freedom".
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