人属与确定性的终结

Homo and the end of certainties

古人类学家们正在开始摆脱关于从猿到人的人化过程的僵化性谬误。关于人类进化的这种线性的、人类中心论的观念是那株掩盖了人类祖先灌木丛的枯树。困扰着当今芸芸众生的不确定性,难道不正是来源于长久以来被所有具有霸权倾向的思想体系所忽视的如下现实:对于多样性的忽视,或者说甚至是否定多样性。明白多样性是最强大的适应潜能,正变得刻不容缓乃至至关重要。自柏林墙倒塌、全球化加速以来,一种凯歌高扬却对全人类的共同进步并无清晰前景的新自由主义令最后的确定性变得模糊不明。面对不确定性,对于理解什么是进化而言,比以往任何时候都更成为必需。

Paleoanthropologists begin to overcome the deceptive rigidity of hominisation.This linear and anthropocentric conception of human evolution is the leafless tree that hides the ancestralbush.Uncertainty,seemingly haunting so many people today,might originate from this fact,long-neglected by all systems of hegemonic thought:the neglect,or rather the denial of diversity.It has become urgent and critical to understand that diversity is the most powerful potential of adaption.Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall and globalisation began to speed up,atriumphing Neo-liberalism without a clear perspective of progress for all makes certainty ambiguous.More than ever,facing uncertainties means understanding what evolution is.