Sublime

Existia um “teorema” da hereditariedade; ele só estava à espera de ser descoberto. Qualquer sociedade que desvendasse o teorema e impusesse suas combinações prescritivas poderia garantir a produção das crianças mais aptas, desencadeando uma espécie de eugenia numerológica:

The Ape Inside Us

In primeval times, when people lived within nature, they needed to protect themselves, and so they were sensitive to the frequencies and sounds generated by nature, in order to detect danger before it could sneak up on them. The sound of the wind blowing, the sound of water flowing, the sound of an animal walking through the grass—the ability to un

The most popular exhibit in this “human zoo” were the Igorrotes, who ate dog meat and hunted heads. The man in charge of the Igorrote village, Truman Hunt, had served as a medical doctor during the war and stayed on, eventually rising to become the lieutenant governor of Bontoc Province.

In a paper in 1977 on birdsong, Peter Marler and Kenneth Marten suggested the possibility that creatures vocalize in some (yet to be understood) relationship to one another.