The "Human Race" to a Better Tomorrow: Evolutions of the World in the Mind and Body

      The human existence continues to flourish day by day as a result of globalization and the differences among people. Globalization spreads culture which includes language. The spread of culture leads to the spread of ideas and evolution of minds and the way that people live their everyday lives. The first source, "Beyond Human" includes humans moving around the world and changing biologically. This is a change in the sense of people moving to different places from starting in Africa to other climates with people with different beliefs. This changes people over time biologically according to different climates but also changing people culturally with religion and languages from being isolated (Max). This is called geographic determinism which is the premise of "Guns, Germs, & Steel". The second source, "Human Evolution" is about the more scientific bias of evolution of the human based upon globalization. This source states that as populations of early humans began to increase, more human ancestors moved around into separate groups. The people being closer together while isolated from other peoples had their own form of communication, whether is was stratching on a rock or making the smallest but of noise. This was very important because it is what led to different languages and different people based on where and with whom they lived. The third source, "Language and Globalization" is evidently about globalization and how it affects languages around the world. As stated in our notes from "A Civilization Primer", Language is any kind of communication, non verbal, written, or verbal, and is the most important of the seven components of culture. This relates to every one of the texts because culture is what is created and learned as humans evolve in every way. Humans learn from other humans and culture is a vital aspect to learn. So, if language is the most important part of culture, and culture is one of the most important parts of human evolution of the mind and body, then each and every one of these sources connects to the importance of all human beings and the spread of ideas through globalization. This was introduced to our class through every unit that we have gone through so far which is why we circle back to Jared Diamond so often and his philosophies.
      "Beyond Human" connects to "Human Evolution" because they both relate to a statement from the second source, "At some point in our development, humans began to rely more on learned behavior (which creates culture) than on genetically fixed or instinctive behavior," (Lerner). The third source "Language and Globalization" links to the other two sources because it states the description of evolution, not biologically, but linguistically, or culturally, "...continuity  of  the  linguistic  diversity  created  by  humanity  through  its  Diaspora  all over  the  world,  and  the  need  for  intercommunication  between  these  groups  of  linguistically- diverse individuals in the new – ‘glocal’ – era of positive re-unification of the species," (Delhumeau). This connects and summarizes the aspect of globalization and its connections and significance to World Cultures and the arguments of globalization and evolutions of cultures and languages.

Works Cited 

Delhumeau, Herve. “Language and Globalization.” Wordpress.com, 22 July 2011, hdelhumeau.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/language-and-globalization/. Accessed 22 May 2017.

Lerner, K. Lee, and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. “Human Evolution.” Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Marion Dresner, 2014, ic.galegroup.com. Accessed 15 May 2017.  

Max, D.T. “Beyond Human.” National Geographic, vol. 231, no. 4, Apr. 2017, pp. 40-63.