Being Human: A Biological, Evolutionary Definition of Human Thought and Behavior Patterns

CHILD OF THE CONTINUUM

by Patricia Regdon, with relevant notes from the journals of Peggy Benton

"Child of the Continuum" is a theory which identifies human thought and behavior patterns, including morals and ethics, as adaptations which continue evolution through variation, competition and selection of various patterns of thought and behavior where new ideas or ways of doing things = mutation; human individual adaptive choices of such ideas or ways of doing things = selection.

Dedicated to the memory of Alan Gregg, Theodosius Dobzhansky, N.J. Berrill and Weston LaBarre who first encouraged me to develop this line of thought.

"Sociobiologists beginning with Hobbes and continuing through Nietzche to the present day, have seen that only an evolutionary analysis of the origins and transformations of ethical norms could ever properly make sense of them."
-Daniel Dennet

“I feel that we are ready now, or are in the process of finding ways to study our living form inside as clearly and as communicably in shared symbols as well as we’ve studied the physical world and ourselves from outside. We can feel our centers as well as our boundaries, our own centers and our centers of interaction with others.
-Peggy Benton

“One who loves and understands nature will never be alone and will never be afraid.”
-Rachel Carson