The Geography of Human Liberation

Human Geography

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...

The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation

Various observations argue for a role of adaptation in recent human evolution, including results from genome-wide studies and analyses of selection signals at candidate genes. Here, we use genome-wide SNP data from the HapMap and CEPH-Human Genome Diversity Panel samples to study the geographic distributions of putatively selected alleles at a range of geographic scales. We find that the averag...

Evidence for the liberation of a nuclease from human fingers.

Towards The Liberation Of Managed Human Life.1

Traditional critiques of the sciences and social sciences from within process studies have argued that since they are premised on Newtonian reductionist conceptualisations of thought for the purpose of simplification, these disciplines have little to offer in terms of furthering the meaningful development of life in the 21 Century. What I shall be doing in this paper is demonstrating that such ...

Human geography without scale

subjective–objective or chaotic–orderly. 14 This ready-made character of scale is well suited for adherents of critical realism, since it too sports a hierarchically organized set of ontological building blocks (of structures, mechanisms and events; see Sayer 1992, 141, 237). Realism’s dualisms and scalar hierarchies often intertwine, again notwithstanding Sayer’s cautionary remarks (1991; also...