{"id":22858,"date":"2024-12-17T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=22858"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:10:18","slug":"prejudices-and-interests-the-unpublishable-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/prejudices-and-interests-the-unpublishable-taboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prejudices and Interests: The Unpublishable Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Prejudices and Interests: The Unpublishable Taboo<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22831\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22831\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280.jpg 900w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280-427x330.jpg 427w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/brain-954816_1280-233x180.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hain. \/ Pixabay<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAVIDRABADA\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14927\" src=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/David-Rabada-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DAVIDRABADA\"><strong>David Rabad\u00e0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Humans are <strong>apes burdened with prejudices<\/strong>. This presents a particular problem: the specialists who interpret and narrate the evolution of our lineage are also human. Paradoxically, this reality is profoundly stimulating, as <strong>prejudices and interests<\/strong> are often treated as taboos, shunned by administrations, universities, and publishing houses. Writing about this subject in the face of widespread informational distortions is therefore a bold and timely endeavour. As Einstein famously noted, it is a sad epoch when It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.<\/p>\n<p>The question of prejudices and interests in the study of <strong>human evolution<\/strong> remains similarly taboo. Scientists are expected to be objective and analytical, yet reality frequently deviates from this ideal. To speak from prejudice is to speak from emotion, and it seems inevitable that emotions obscure analysis when we discuss our own evolution\u2014especially when that discussion presumes human superiority over other groups of organisms, which is itself a prejudice. However, all evolutionary processes must be interpreted through a reflective and <strong>objective analysis of available data<\/strong>. Evolution\u2014the changes in the form of living beings\u2014is rooted in inherited developments from ancestors; natural selection acts subsequently and in relation to the functionality of the constructed organic form. Thus, the primary question should not be \u201cWhat is this structure for?\u201d\u2014and even less should we assume a priori that every change must be adaptive. The first step is to analyse what has been inherited\u2014phylogeny\u2014and then evaluate the functional repercussions of these changes, whether they yield adaptive outcomes or not. Form dictates function, not the other way around, a notion reminiscent of <strong>Lamarckian<\/strong> thought. Lamarckism, with its implicit teleology, is surprisingly pervasive in the media and even in educational contexts, particularly concerning the origins of our species.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, assertions such as \u201cintelligence can only be anthropomorphic\u201d or \u201cif humans went extinct, chimpanzees would become intelligent\u201d stem from prejudice rather than objective analysis. These claims also dismiss the myriad forms of intelligence found across life, from the collective intelligence of social insects to the individual consciousness of cetaceans and the learning abilities of octopuses. Moreover, our species\u2014consciously destroying the only planet on which it can survive\u2014hardly exemplifies true intelligence. In my subjective opinion, in this regard, we are an <strong>evolutionary failure of the highest order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Equally prejudiced assertions abound: humans are said to have reduced their dentition after cooking food or lost their body hair upon adopting clothing. Such dogmas reflect a worrying ignorance of the evolutionary mechanisms affecting all living beings, blatantly confusing cause and effect. For this reason, writing about prejudices and interests in any field of knowledge is audacious and pertinent, even knowing that administrations, universities, and affiliated publishers are unlikely to support books addressing such topics. We believe we have evolved, yet we are arguably regressing.<\/p>\n<p>Searching online for \u201cHuman Evolution\u201d yields around 800,000 results, giving the impression that much of humanity has made substantial progress. In contrast, searching for \u201cHuman Involution\u201d garners a mere 3% of the initial results, suggesting that only a minority are reconsidering the dominant narrative. Examining how our prehistory is described reveals that we <strong>may be closer to involution than evolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing human evolution is so deeply entrenched in our self-perception that many palaeoanthropologists succumb to their darker inclinations\u2014their involution, prejudices and interests. Numerous scientific interpretations of our origins are riddled with subjective visions. The critical question remains: <strong>Why are humans so prone to prejudgment?<\/strong> The answer is as tangible as the fossils we unearth. A prejudice arises from emotion rather than reason. We, the modern humans, consider ourselves rational animals, yet we are far more emotional than rational. In other words, we feel more than we think\u2014or, put differently, we prejudge more than we analyse. Consider the behaviour of a crowd at a football match, impulsive purchases, or voting patterns\u2014does the majority genuinely scrutinise each political party\u2019s platform? The truth is that we possess an emotional brain, evolved over 300,000 years ago, which was never designed\u2014except under rigorous training\u2014for analytical methods.<\/p>\n<p>The human mind evolved from that of socially foraging apes to emotionally driven hunters. This evolution ensured that our perception of reality is neither unequivocal nor homogeneous. <strong>Subjectivity<\/strong> reigns among us, leading us to wield swords against the religion of the unknown, the ideology of the foreigner, and those we perceive as encroaching on our territory. We remain primitive and primate-like, no matter how rational or advanced we proclaim ourselves to be. Few humans critically analyse and contrast reality; the majority rely on intuition without prior analysis. Those who opt for rigorous cross-examination of information often distance themselves from mainstream society, yet in doing so, they come closer to the genuine reality. In other words, those who fail to analyse judgments are more susceptible to their own prejudices.<\/p>\n<p>The proof lies in individuals historically deemed ahead of their time\u2014those who, armed with profound knowledge, analysed rather than merely felt the realities of their era. Think of <strong>Plato, Galileo, Da Vinci, Kant, Darwin, Einstein, Simpson, Seilacher, or Ram\u00f3n y Caja<\/strong>l. These figures became pioneers of their epochs, overcoming the limitations of the brains they inherited.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so, they achieved groundbreaking human advancements, avoiding the two major obstacles that cloud objective observation: interests and prejudices\u2014our egoism and our perception. These figures excelled by harnessing reason over emotion, surpassing the Paleolithic brain that preceded them. Today, the romantic pedagogy enshrined in our educational laws is more laden with prejudices and interests than with empirical realities and rationality.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are apes burdened with prejudices. This presents a particular problem: the specialists who interpret and narrate the evolution of our lineage are also human. Paradoxically, this reality is profoundly stimulating, as prejudices and interests are often treated as taboos, shunned by administrations, universities, and publishing houses. Writing about this subject in the face of widespread informational distortions is therefore a bold and timely endeavour. As Einstein famously noted, it is a sad epoch when It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"1","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[410,255],"tags":[2257,2258,2256,1156],"class_list":["post-22858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-science","tag-interests","tag-involution","tag-prejudices","tag-subjectivity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prejudices and Interests: The Unpublishable Taboo - Educational Evidence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Humans are apes burdened with prejudices. 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