Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4_6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality
Original language description
Although the legacy of the Swiss zoologist Adolf Portmann (1897–1982) has left profound traces in the formation of modern evolutionary anthropology and comparative neuroscience, few if any studies have considered the wider context of his comparative research and its potential modern significance. At the same time, current findings and directions seem to offer new tools for this purpose, and doing so may open exciting perspectives in the interpretation of human evolution and neurobiology from developmental viewpoints, as sought by Portmann. Specifically, his bio-anthropological research program, or basal anthropology, challenges established fault-lines between structural (morphological) and functional (physiological) research traditions, and seeks new contacts between them through typological generalizations that draw on the distinct developmental patterns of altricial and precocial species – and humans, as a secondarily altricial species. The concept of secondarily evolved altriciality (in a precocial species, such as humans) may significantly clarify contested issues of neurological, comparative biological, and anthropological research, by recognizing the wide zoological background upon which the human type of ontogeny can be seen as a distinct class among all vertebrates, including higher mammals and primates. By these means, the more abstract concepts of a socially open and symbolically constituted life mode, as discussed in early anthropology, can be integrated with modern frameworks, where a close dialogue is reemerging between developmental and evolutionary, as well as structural and functional research traditions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-11571S" target="_blank" >GA19-11571S: Adolf Portmann: a pioneer of the eidetic and semiotic approach in the philosophy of the life sciences</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Adolf Portmann: A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life
ISBN
978-3-030-67809-8
Number of pages of the result
30
Pages from-to
89-118
Number of pages of the book
273
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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