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Will of the Free, Freeish will, or Will with some Freedom
Damien Marie AtHope’s ArtWe are emotional beings that only sometimes utilize the thinking strategy called "reason." We are not rational beings, that only sometimes enjoy the amusement park of emotions. I strive to follow “Reason” and be a rationalist. Reason is my...
Life-Death-Rebirth Deities: Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, Attis, Zagreus, Dionysus, and Jesus
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref" A dying-and-rising god, life–death–rebirth deity, or resurrection deity is a religious motif in which a god or goddess dies and is resurrected. Examples of gods who die and later return to life are most often cited from the religions of...
Origin of Arcane Homo Erectus to Earliest Modern Humans
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refI think that it is most likely that an arcane Homo (from Latin homō 'human'), the last common ancestor of Homo sapiens/Modern humans, split off of Homo Erectus in Northwest Africa sometime from 2 million to 750,000...
Male Y-DNA and Female Mt-DNA haplogroups from the earliest beginnings in Africa, then their early spreading or migrations to the large haplogroups we see dominating today
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Y-chromosomal Adam Mitochondrial Eve ref "The former-Adam is estimated to have lived around 202,000 years ago, the revised one is thought to be about 338,000 years old."...
Justine “That Woman” Warren: Egyptian Archaeologist and Anthropology Educator
Justine Warren has a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, focusing on Egypt, from the University of Chicago. Justine was ABD (all but dissertation) at Chicago when she had to withdraw due to my health. Justine did fieldwork in the US,...
Homo floresiensis or “Hobbit” on the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago
ref, ref, ref, refrefrefTo me, Homo erectus is the only reasonable ancestor for Homo floresiensis, particularly to early Javanese Homo erectus. It is the only hominin/archaic human that inhabited the area, or that left Africa to be believed could be related. Which...