There are shelfloads of books about it: "The Age of Empathy," "The Empathy Gap," "The Empathic Civilization," "Teaching Empathy".
The ancient dates help fill in a continuity gap of human civilization, said study researcher Lucinda Backwell, a researcher in palaeoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The lawsuit had the virtues of pointing up the Immense psychic gap between those two pillars of bourgeois civilization, the artist and the corporation, and of illuminating some of the assumptions that continually push commercial television toward blandness.
I tried to get a sense of the reason for the cultural gap, but the only three Icelandic culture academicians that don't focus on medieval Nordic civilization neglected to respond to my emails. .
Increasing numbers of experts agree that Asia is now leading the way for the world, even as it lays bare glaring gaps in the West's narrative of civilization.
If, as many people believe, the gap between the rich and the poor nations could destroy civilization, then the role of the World Bank becomes even more important.
Even though the score, worldwide, stands at 2.2 billion to 1.8 billion in the favor of Christianity, Islam is rapidly closing the gap in what appears to be the fourth quarter of human civilization.
"There is a deep knowledge gap separating the Arab and Islamic nations from the process and progress of contemporary global civilization," said Abdallah S. Jumah, the chief executive of Saudi Aramco.
Gaps are growing between rich and poor, and we see alarming scarcities of food, fuel and the natural resources on which civilization depends.
