Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-11571S" target="_blank" >GA19-11571S: Adolf Portmann: průkopník eidetického a semiotického přístupu ve filozofii věd o živém</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Adolf Portmann: A Thinker of Self-Expressive Life

ISBN

978-3-030-67809-8

Počet stran výsledku

30

Strana od-do

89-118

Počet stran knihy

273

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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