Human Origins

I found Human origins by Carl Zimmer to be quite interesting. It’s weird to think about how far the human race has come. We started with nothing but the materials we could find in our environment now I’m typing this homework from home on a computer when my television is on commercials. Ha ha try to explain that one to Homo ergaster. Though the reading was interesting I found it hard for me to remember the names and eras of these early hominids. Then just the other day I was thinking that we will probably never get the real answer about where we came from with the huge increase of the world population and urban sprawl researchers won’t be able to dig up bones when there are housing developments and mini malls covering the land.

Devon DeCamp

are we born moral?

While reading the article are we born moral it talked about possibilities of morality being developed in humans and other animals. Which made me think about what exactly are morals. Moral is just a word after all.

When a group of animals are working together it’s beneficial to their survival most of the time rather than if they start to eat each other or do whatever they want which wouldn’t be. To me morality is cooperating with your peers enough to further your existence.

In class we talked about how morals differentiate around the world pretty drastically, which is very interesting because it shows to me that there is no real right and wrong. Only your society’s standard of what is right or wrong.

Corbin B.

Are we born moral?

The reading discussed many theories on how moralities in humans have been passed. Is it through natural born instinct or taught through the parameters of society that we learn the difference between right and wrong. They also raise the question of morality in the animal kingdom. Some have the opinions that with in animals they have learned their own form of morality. While I wouldn’t class it as having the same rules as humans do animals have certainly shown behavior that is not completely selfish and immoral. Personally I take the side of being born with moralities as instincts and then developing how to use them throughout life. I feel like if the question “are we born moral” was rephrased as “are we born evil,” more people would share the view. When you use stronger language people tend to have different opinions then they normally would, and in this case they would not want to consider themselves as evil from the beginning.

Kyle Eggers