evolution

An Insight21 article exploring spiritual alternatives to perceptions of evolution, including Kropotkin, Steiner, and others.

Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food -- whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.

Everyone has their theory about our over-consumption, their explanation for why we can’t stop buying, even in the face of ecological meltdown. John Naish’s explanation is unusual - we evolved that way, and to stop ourselves, we need to evolve again.

It’s a short film featuring a young girl being assailed with hundreds of images of female perfection and female beauty in society. The freckled 7-year-old girl is facing the camera as a soundtrack repeats “Here it comes.”