The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience and, of course, musicology to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music.
But aesthetic feeling is a normal affective accompaniment of any act of creation or reception, and the distinguishing feature of humankind as a species.
The Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind – which features my sculpture, Layers of Being, a giant kneeling figure made of rammed earth – is a network of limestone caves in which have been found several fossils of plants, animals and hominids.
The broad aim of the Earth sciences is to understand the present features and the past evolution of the Earth and to use this knowledge, where appropriate, for the benefit of humankind.
This exhibition at SMMoA features the premier of Evolution (Megaplex), 2010, a new large-scale 3D video collage, which displays the history of humankind through the lens of cinema.
Written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Jerome Opeña, it features a ragtag team of heroes, led by Wolverine, that must stop a former teammate from bringing about the end of humankind.
In the history of humankind?
It is the legacy of humankind.
The DNA of humankind as stale crullers".
Diversity is an invariant constant of humankind.
