Why isn’t evolution theory more widely taught?
Is it all due to religious backlash? If it were more widely taught, would we know more about the past too? Be able to answer these questions?:
- Who was our direct evolutionary ancestor? Was it Homo heidelbergensis, like many paleoanthropologists think, or another species?
- How much interbreeding occurred between our species and Homo neanderthalensis?
- What does the future hold for our species in an evolutionary sense? source
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Would we know the names of all the ages? And what progress we made during them? source
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For eg. Most of the basic tools we still use today were first made during the stone age with chert/flint or obsidian. (so we’re evolved, huh?) Though the iron age did improve on their endurance under use. They had basic housing, clothes and social organization too.
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Why do we refuse to look at the earlier and world cultures? Let alone allow our children to learn about them? (No it’s not ALL xtian bias) Maybe we could see it as a story or a thought experiment, rather than seeing it as a threat to who we are now? Because even in the day of the internet and all these educational opps. we still have to hunt like we’re after our evening’s meal to find what should be widely known. IMO
mspeachierocks 
Archaeogenetics brought a big breakthrough. The entire genome of today’s humans, but the entire genome of any living organism that has ever lived, can be reconstructed from fragments. It enables time travel, evolutionary processes can be followed, and precise temporal states can be determined. Missing links can be pointed out.
Why don’t we study this exciting evolutionary map, method?
Because we would also see the real history of some virus weapons. False histories, origin theories, ethnic histories would be exposed… And many people do not want that. The truth would set us free, and so would knowledge. And many people were interested in not knowing and not being free the people. . These hindering forces stand to lose.
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I hope they do lose. But so much of history has been lost. So many people have been killed and languages lost. It’s hard to see that loss ever being known.
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Oh yes… But what exists today, and exists organically, not without foundations and roots, its past can be traced, because it has a history of development: what exists records and reveals the past as well. And whoever looks into the past also sees the future.
The Manchus don’t speak their language anymore, the Chinese banned it… But every Manchu, based on oral tradition, can tell the descent order of 60 generations backwards… Manchu speaking names that they understand…
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That’s something I guess.
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“That’s something I guess.”
Here we have a group of people who speak little, about whom many jokes have been made…
The old man is taken by his family to the zoo, where they show him the cone. He had never seen such an animal before. He scratches the back of his head and points to the little animal: “Well, this creature is either something… or it’s going somewhere.”
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I guess that is the choices of the animal, isn’t it? lol
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