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A little bit more about evolution. From approximately 200,000 years ago up to today, we are looking at Man and Man’s progress, which is a small part of evolution. The greater part of each day had man attempting to satisfy his primary needs and/or drives, some of which are: food, social order, the conservation of energy, and sex. He was helped or greatly hindered by his progress developing tools and by the natural environment, which he had not learned to control to his advantage. Survival of the fittest, a constant ongoing struggle where the biggest and/or dominant (the hunter) have the ability to maintain a high place in the food chain by eliminating the less fit and/or unfortunate from their group (the hunted). Each group in the food chain has to choose, fight or flight, from there he surrenders to the more dominate group. He then must adjust (adapt) using physical and biological modifications, and the remaining environment for his group to continue to survive, as each group must. Each year, as we progress forward, Man is learning to manipulate the environment to the satisfaction of his desires. He has reduced in many instances the extreme demands on our bodies required to satisfy our needs and/or drives; these demands that influence our gene structures. All this is happening mostly for everyone and the fittest, the dominant, and adaptation are becoming obscure, as is the conservation of energy. Behavior might be affected as; assuming the position of “Top of the food chain”, there could also be a loss or weakening of the fear factors that are an aid to social order. I am Man, (Homo sapiens), from far back, man’s basic growth pattern has been; Birth to Puberty thru Adolescence to Man. The stage Man being sexual maturity where he has, by this time, started looking outward from himself and has acquired specific physical and mental skills, (hopefully directed to understand man’s basic needs and drives), from mother, the environment and social groups. All this to be consistent with the patterns of the past generations, and is intended to maintain the norm, (addressing ‘decent thru modification’), by passing his properly developed genes on to the next generation. Without the understanding of the structure of Man, aided by the many recent papers from the related sciences adding new insight to the understanding of Evolution and our Genes, all that might be produced is a Box of Puppies. ̶Jim DeOre More about our genes and evoltion It is the present and man is at the Apex. He has on the way to the top of the Food Chain, manipulated the environment toward the satisfaction of needs and desires. Survival and fittest, food, the conservation of energy, the sex drive and the herd relation; these needs and drives, that consumed the major part of every day and involved everyone in some way for many thousands of years, now have higher success rates and require less time and less involvement and they have more complex structures that not all have inherited in full. Having overcome most of the external threats from other species while at the same time improving our ability to manage the environment, survival instincts and definite purpose in primitive form are mostly out of place in the social groups of adolescents under adult control. Also not needed is the primitive, mostly insensitive, Alpha Male type. Dominance appears in many and if lacking strength and appeal, it can be modified during adolescence. Our social groups might not attach value (importance) to the inheritance factor(s) and understanding the many different behavioral patterns that appear from them during adolescence. For many thousands of years, the distinction between adult and adolescent has been reflected upon, and the actions to be considered have hardly changed. It is known that qualities good and bad can be adjusted easier at the earliest stages of development and can progress to unacceptable proportions. An example is; from long ago, ‘The Cry Wolf’ syndrome which apparently has developed to beyond ‘hyper startle’ and is not possible to contain, nor convince one it exceeds reality to such an extent that even a worldly acclaimed beautiful love song has to explode a thousand feet in the air. A second example; take two young men with a rational disagreement; does anyone associate the gun that appears as the argument escalates, with the syndrome or any developmental stage or lack of understanding of Natural Law. Szondi describes drives as having opposing forces and this suggests ‘the Cry Wolf’ syndrome which might not seem critical, might be displacing a very necessary positive force. Now responses to needs, drives and desires, require additional thinking, ( such as the respect for others, their property and the environment), for one to interact successfully in a social group. Training and adjustments are easier early on and become increasingly more difficult as one advances in age. Within the group, (our part of the Food Chain), one will invent or discover a tool (or different action/response), and many will copy the tool, (some by the use of flash memory), and eventually it will be used (not necessarily understood), by all. Copy and follow seem to be in all of us at various levels of excitation. They are a part of our social nature and the desire to belong can interfere with our feelings of fairness, not having been introduced to the elements and understanding of Natural Law. One in this group reaches a point, sometimes early, where suddenly he has a strong impulse to strike out on his own and his actions, mostly physical in nature, can lead to his becoming self-sufficient. This is suggestive of the basic pattern understood to be the end of adolescence and entering maturity that has been a part of us for thousands of years or more. Very little is required for this biological event (stage) to be seen and for many it is the disruption of or end of academics. It is possible for him to continue building upon his understanding of physical ability thru interaction and training along with more complex social and environmental events and this will lead to personal satisfaction. Erickson’s Psychosocial stages of development outline the steps that lead to maturity.

In some instances, the pattern is the same, up to a point, the impulse is strong but he doesn’t necessarily strike out on his own, he just feels that he knows enough of everything and his now independent nature is lacking the training that would build self-sufficiency. This is suggestive of the end of adolescence (biologically); but not the emergence from ‘Piaget’s, Egocentrism’. The present action of the majority today, ‘going to work’ seems to fit where hunter/gatherer has been and long before that was carnivore; but he and some have an incomplete response to this stage. It is possible that for many, this stage now has so many options and he wasn’t a hunter/gatherer, he was perhaps, a tool maker, fire builder, skinner, or look-out; so his inheritance (gene structure), might be of such that from long ago, his entering and reaction to this stage has taken on a subtle form hardly to be recognized and activation stimulus is missing. Those in the group who are emerging from adolescence and have not adjusted to and do not have a mental conflict with, current social/group patterns, have a near final chance at entering the social group by receiving support/training from others. Some in this group, in their formative years, will be influenced to accept/recognize the changes to basic actions, needs/drives they are missing or don’t know they are missing. Being eager to participate, their support will come from social interaction, peer pressure and education. Those being drive deficient and not a follower type, having a lack of understanding where this independent nature comes from, will have difficulty with the learning process.

Others, Perhaps the Alpha hopefuls, sub-Alphas and followers, all with the use of their now larger brain and the many accumulated survival and adaptive options, (such as being alert to everything everywhere at all times and ready to defend, escape, confuse and more), available effected in part by gene scattering and the displacement of the instant fight/survival impulse/response, have become dominant in number and their cognizant and sensitivity levels expected in us at maturity, begin (are available to begin) much earlier and can be very active. Hardly is it possible to locate the activator; although ’some life choices are inherited – Szondi’. Erickson’s Psychosocial development is very descriptive of this group’s path to maturity.

These two groups do not know each other although they have existed together for many thousands of years.

From the very beginning, one of the basic needs/drives has been the acquisition of food, Many changes/modifications have occurred as to how we get food, and how important we perceive it to be. These changes involve our physical and mental abilities and the influence of the environment; the need/drive is still here. Perhaps this is akin to Pavlov’s ‘First signal system’ and Pavlov’s ‘Second signal system’ suggests, the drive, incomplete or misunderstood, could cause instability.

Very noticeable in the animal world, when in the pursuit of food, is the ‘conservation of energy’ where one must know the boundaries and limits of his abilities. Survival in this state, not only depends on the extreme factors; but there is also the waiting, resting, measuring distance and size factors. From this one might suspect that the drive to acquire food, having been at the top of Survival elements, might have left in us the obverse of the hunting drive, (opposite drive need) and perhaps this is why we all seem to have in us the ‘Do It The Easy Way, Factor’.

While in the adolescent stage, many are fortunate to be in a group/community that the repetitions they encounter are all leading toward, “just do good”, and the environment is friendly and supportive. Attempts to understand adolescent behavior and convey a lesson or moral lesson are as old as writing. The use of Parables, Apologues, Aesop’s Fables, and Folklore fit easily into the process and have been used for thousands of years. In many areas today there are no aids of this type. When problems occur during our growing stages, hardly has Algebra been at fault. The formal learning processes have been developed with much care and one progresses level by level to some measurable point; whereas learning our basic physical and mental nature and to accomplish things physical, if only that which has improved everyday life, and to exist in a social order, being aware of the necessity for sources of information, and understand more about the elements of our environmental infrastructure, these elements were always left, mostly by tradition, to other stages that are fading perhaps, thru population density and and many social factors. It is becoming more and more evident that the very nature of our genes along with the working of the food chain caused a sort of consistency, a balance of traits that always continued that helped control and preserved the order of things. That Survival was the highest order is easily seen; but as a group the selection process had to provide soldiers, followers and specialists for future generations, not only Alpha Male. From this observation, there is a hint of Predestiny and possible identifiable character traits. Some species are 100 million years older than us, and yet, we are the only ones that, within our group, there will be one who has the ability to tell another how to  make a handle for a rock, mend a wing or grow a flower, some will  represent it to many of the others and some won’t be affected. Jim DeOre jul2014