This is a fantastic interview, you asked all the questions I wanted to hear the answers to and it's always great to listen to someone talk about a subject they're so clearly passionate about. I'm definitely going to look up more of Dr Fuentes. I'd like to add to the list of things that anthropology can contribute to our modern understanding of: psychology. If we can understand the evolution of the brain/mind then we can understand more about how and why things go wrong, given the current mental health crisis I think this is routinely overlooked.
This is where I sleep, all alone. Just me, without any women, by myself on this mat! I don’t sleep with my wife anymore because of ekila. My ekila is big, very big! I kill elephants ‘baaaaaam’! Old men (kombeti) like me, don’t screw women any more because of ekila. That’s how the fathers advised us to look after our ekila.
What is your training that makes you disagree with his hypothesis? Which ideas do you not agree with? Provide evidence or a factual hypothesis I am a layman but very interested in science and extremely skeptical about anything that does not provide evidence. I found his ideas to be quite reasonable, although I am ignorant.
I think, it's too complicated, not really consistent and therefore not convincing. We have to focus on a relatively unobserved aspect: Distance. Evolution doesn't have a certain goal, but it has a centrifugal direction. From the early beginnings of hydrocarbon chains to modern humans, the overcoming of distance(in space a n d time) has been essential. Humans can be defined as animals, that were able to carry functionality to a large scale over the "skin-border" into the periphery. The extent of doing this, might have been be the evolutionary interspecific aquafortis. Under the aspect of distance, language can be seen as a "remote control unit" for undirectional or bidrectional p r e c i s e influencing. Nowadays the objects(=peripheral functionality) themselves are able to overcome long distances, sometimes even autonomously. One example: Ballistic technics in biology are common, but not very sweeping: Spitting cobras, archerfish, cone snails, impatiens etc..Humans were able to promote ballistics, because they became independent of using products of their own delicate metabolism. Already the fire hardened spear heads of Schönigen spears witness the application of high temperature. Condensed: The escape of the "Nahraumfalle" body by technical and symbolic means seems to me the key of understanding human evolution.
