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Have we stopped evolving?

Using Cultural Ecology 2017 to speculate on big questions about the future of life in the Anthropocene. One question: Have we stopped evolving?

The two readings:

Tim Ingold, “‘People like us’: The concept of the anatomically modern human” (373-391) in The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
Anna Tsing pp.217-250 in The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

I revisited the Ingold chapter for a 2022 course in the History of Anthropological Thought:

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