Instructions: The story of human's historical evolutionary relationship with the environment is more accurately speaking, one of their relationship with the aspects of their perceived environments. The nervous system of humans has evolved to receive only a small part of the stimuli that exist in the real world. Some of the concepts that help us to better understand this phenomenon are the concepts of habituation and of Gestalt Laws. Furthermore, we now know that culture itself also evolves into discreet cultural "paths" which shape the characteristic types of relationships humans have with the environment. These evolutionary changes are not random, nor can they be explained by principles of biological evolution alone. Rather, to better understand the process of cultural evolution, it would be more helpful to understand how the process of "conscious evolution" and micro and macro factors influence the evolutionary paths of culture. For these reasons, the Head of the EVR 4415 Clan Council has asked all Primordial culture. For these reasons, the Head of the EVR 4415 Clan Council has asked all Primordial Ancestors to work on essays that elaborate on these concepts and processes and provide examples and evidence of how they exist in real life. Failure to post the assignment by the due date will result in the deduction of 5% of the grade for every day the assignment is late. Submitting the assignment more than 5 days late will result in zero points for the assignment. • Each Primordial Ancestor will be responsible for completing ONE essay assignment option from the list below. • Each Primordial Ancestor will conduct research to find information and evidence required to address the questions of the essay option they selected. The sources of information and requested evidence can be in the form of published journals, books, photographs, videos, audio, text articles, or any other online content. • Content: Each Primoridal Ancestor will construct an essay that is broken up into logically organized paragraphs that MUST include images and links to videos. photographs, videos, audio, text articles, or any other online content. • Content: Each Primoridal Ancestor will construct an essay that is broken up into logically organized paragraphs that MUST include images and links to videos. Explain the content of the images and videos in the text of your essay and cite the sources. Links to audio, or interesting websites is • recommended but optional. Length: Essays are required to be a minimum of 750 words in length and required to include a minimum of 4 sources of information and evidence. References: All information gleaned from published sources must be properly cited inside parentheses in the text AND in a "references cited" list at the end of the post using standard citation format (MLA, APA, Chicago). You may add also hypercitations, but this is not considered a standard citation format. Failure to use or to cite published journals to support your position will result in zero points for the assignment. Essay Options: 1. Sustainability based on Whose Perceptions of Reality? The authors of the textbook state that there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between what's "out there" (a single true "reality") and what we perceive. They also add that because human perceptions are the result of the interaction between the external world and the evolved characteristics of the human nervous system, we miss much about this "reality" that is detectable by other organisms. If indeed, this is true, then what are the potential implications to other organisms of efforts to increase the planet's ability to sustain a good quality of life for all living beings based on a human perception of reality? How are some people trying to address this by trying to better understand how other species perceive the world? Do you think we should design sustainability plans that also take in consideration the how other species perceive the world? Do you think we should design sustainability plans that also take in consideration the perceptions of other species? Why or why not? 2. How does Solipsism affect Environmental Worldviews? Explain the concept of solipsism. Provide examples of how scientific, religious, and other human beings have attempted to answer a conundrum of solipsism - "How do we know that the others we perceive - indeed the world we perceive - are actually out there?". How does the way we answer these questions affect the types of environmental worldviews we develop, our attitudes towards the rest of nature, and what we consider to be appropriate behaviors to live in such a world?