ABSTRACT

From an evolutionary standpoint, the main feature that underlies human diversity and success is the brain's extraordinary ability to reflect, create and problem-solve. Increased brain circuitry is key to our species uniqueness; it confers the ability for speech, writing, counting, mathematics, art, music and some spatiotemporal measurement to help explain, explore and understand the world around us. New ideas and revolutionary worldviews appear in a society when free thinkers confront tradition; most of these individuals have a passionate drive to explore beyond the present. One way to help to prepare for these changes is for our educational systems to convey that human knowledge, from a cross-cultural perspective, is provisional, and it is through its provisional power that the richness of human potentialities can be realized without losing sight of the truth. Worldwide, it has been estimated that only one in seven people believes in biological evolution.