HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART I

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The man of the future may be HOMO-ITER, the walking man, the man who makes his way in the search for his sense of life, but will do it walking.

Let’s try to conceptualize and understand what HOMO-ITER is.

HOMO-ITER is the human being who travels, during most of his life, using his own bodily means, mainly his lower limbs or his legs and feet; however, he use, for his translation and movement, and to maintain balance and harmony, other parts of the body and the external senses.

It is worth noting that the homo iter uses the wheel as little as possible to move, or any type of carriage pulled by animals; his use of them is limited or very little.

This approach is very likely to allow us to see – in the near future – the voluntary and functional creation of individuals with 2 or more functions in the same: the walker-reader, the walker-writer or the walker-draftsman, and even more , the walker-reader-writer.

HOMO-ITER receives the same effects in his body but has different functional causes than primitive man. It is not a thoughtless return to the origins, but is done voluntarily and also instinctively in terms of various activities that HOMO-ERECTUS used to do in those early times. So it is a perfected, healthy and comprehensive return.

It is not completely returning to the past, for modern man does not walk to hunt, not to gather fruits, not to shepherd, not to cut roots; He walks to exercise all his muscles (almost 100% of them) and his bone structure. The results (physical and mental effects) you get from walking are exactly the same since archaic times: exercise, blood circulation, oxygenation of the whole body and brain, positive functional impact on all bodily and physiological organs and systems.

What are the peculiarities (physical and functional characteristics) of HOMO-ERECTUS and HOMO SAPIENS in relation to HOMO-ITER?

For this confrontation of clarification, we must take into account the proto-historical moment of when the “human being” began to walk, the homo erectus, on its 2 lower extremities (times that man has walked on earth); and perhaps that moment coincides with the erect, but that has not been verified, because it was possible to erect -if it is not that the human being, the “modern man” was always erect- and continue walking on “four legs” for many millennia. He could have stood and continue to move with his 4 limbs.

Let’s take a look at some hominids, “brothers”, or “cousins” of homo.

Man and anthropoids, those beings that have a human form, originally had a common family trunk.

Too many questions arise on the subject: How long ago did hominids start walking? Hominid is the current human being? What or what are the pre-hominid forms? What are hominids, apes, homo sapiens, homo erectus, etc.? and many more questions.

There were several hominids living with Homo Sapiens, over a large period of several million years, but only 2 could survive: this and the Neanderthal. Neanderthal man does not have all the characteristics of modern man and Cro-magnon man could have been a cross between the Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens –these 2 were contemporaries-, a possible hybridization, but it cannot be conclusively asserted.

The Pitecantropus Erectus is the oldest hominid that has been discovered, which has certain anthropoid features, and that its posture was erect, but it is distant from some characteristics of the human. We could speculate that with the appearance of this anthropoid the activity of walking in hominids begins, many millions of years ago, in the Pleistocene, qualified as an early morphological type of man. There is no doubt that this upright position was achieved long before his brain developed further.

We must comment that knowing clearly where and when the appearance of homo sapiens begins, -of modern man: man with the physique equal to the current one-, is very difficult and his study has been very rough; However, we can consider that homo sapiens originates and begins when that being reaches an upright position and begins to walk on its 2 lower extremities.

There is no doubt that the human being as such belongs to a branch of primates that differentiated itself several million years ago – in the Miocene geological period of the Tertiary era, 26 million years ago – from monkeys and anthropoids. Its main features are the size of the prefrontal brain area and its upright position that made it walk on its lower extremities (upright position and that it moves walking on its 2 feet erectly), in addition to its upper limbs, its finger Thumb is opposite to the rest of your fingers.

There is a theory that the Australopithecus of South Africa is the one that preceded the modern man – who has the same physique as the current one – since he reached an upright position, he walked on his two feet, although his size did not exceed 5 feet (1.50 meters) of height. Darwin expressed about our parent ancestral ancestors: “they probably met in Africa.” However, there are also opinions that “this could not be the direct predecessor of man.” Thus, homo sapiens may have been a type of hominid that developed most safely in Africa.

All those “generatrix” lines that have been mentioned over decades of scientific research to unveil the origin and formation of the “current man” have not been blunt from the strictly evolutionary point of view, in order to conclude that any of these hominid specimens is one of the first types that directly preceded homo sapiens. As we mentioned, detecting these first men has been very rough and complicated.

It is necessary to differentiate between direct parent and primitive antecedent; the latter has 2 of the 3 important characteristics of the then homo sapiens, although he has not developed the brain, but it should be understood that this marks the dating of the upright position, which made him walk on his lower extremities, of some contemporary hominid types, including homo sapiens.

All of them, absolutely, all of them at some time walked on their lower extremities, just like the human being, as we know him in the present. But, remember, only 2 could survive.

The time that the erect hominid has walked on the face of the earth compared to the time that modern man has been using animals to transport us and carts pulled by quadrupeds, is very, very large. In order to appreciate the magnitude of this period, we could make the simile that this duration that we have walked corresponds to 20 centimeters and the period in which we have relied on other forms of loading and transportation corresponds to 1 millimeter. If we compare the number of days of a life of 80 years, the analogy would be telling us that the time we would spend walking would be 29,054 days, while we would not walk 146 days. To clearly assimilate this disproportion, let’s reverse the periods and observe that not walking during the 29,054 days would lead to a serious health problem, crippling our body.

All our existence as a species we have spent walking, let’s not stop doing it. Our organisms are completely accustomed to walking, modifying this custom will lead us to alter the health and behavior and the proper functioning of our bodies.

What prompted us to walk? How was that process generated? We must question whether all these beings were holobionts that had a direct relationship – or not – with their decision to walk on their 2 lower extremities. That is, did your vital need to stand up, if any, and walk developed in the same vital environment? Or, on the contrary, was it sought by some stimulus external to its vital circle (brutal climatic changes), and put it to walk on its two lower extremities? (Future Post CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE ANNOUNCED IN THE PLEISTOCENE).

Possibility that opens up the speculation that some of the specimens that have been found might be in the need to stand up to be able to move quickly and dynamically to respond more effectively and successfully to the demands of their external environment, and this placed it in their 2 feet and a definite advantage over other hominids. Perhaps this generated other advances in its development of other organs and especially in the growth and improvement of the brain. Specimen that became the current modern homo sapiens.

It may not be an exaggeration to say that walking upright on 2 legs gave these beings greater capacity and brain faculty because they freed their 2 upper extremities with extraordinary skill and ability to do, and this generated their thinking and reasoning, increasing their faculties, intellectual and creative, which in turn caused a greater number of images and ideas, generating and perfecting speech and this an improvement in thinking to conform to being HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS.

The scientific demonstration of this evolutionary process corresponds to the coming generations, especially in the first 2 blocks, because in the following blocks no one doubts that they were raised. Presenting our evolutionary thesis is enough to take certain actions that will not have any negative impact on the benefits that the WALK-RWD system generates in our organism, both physical and mental and spiritual.

However, I do have to be more emphatic about those first 2 blocks of development: If that primitive being was driven – millions of years ago – in its development and capacities, physical and mental – to move only on its 2 lower extremities, walking erect, and releasing its other 2 upper extremities, it is very likely that our systemic theory of read-write-draw while WALKING can again have an impact on the human being of the future that projects it in a better way towards the less uncertain and healthier future in all orders.

Only by putting the WALK-RWD system into practice it can give us an answer to our thesis.

Now, what happens at the moment? What actions should we take? Undoubtedly, incorporating the walk as an essential part of life, in our surrounding and surrounding daily life, we will observe certain changes (variations, transformations, innovations, metamorphosis, evolutions, renovations) in some aspects of it, physically, mentally , emotionally, economically, socially, in the family, in the workplace, in short, in some way that will make us behave differently and observe our existence with another vital perspective.

How could we demonstrate, from the cultural, health and ecological points of view, that the return to walk is an evolution, AN EVOLUTIONARY RETURN. (or A RETURN TO EVOLVE). Of course it is difficult to show that transporting ourselves on foot is a cultural expression of improvement, of progress, because walking is more tired, it is more time consuming, it is more difficult, it is uncomfortable, we cannot carry many or varied things, or large volumes, and so on. However, it is undoubted (irrefutable) – it has already been shown – that some of the diseases that are affecting us at the present time are due to the fact that we have replaced moving on foot by “the wheel” and “the wings” . The car – in all its forms and categories – as a means of transport has avoided walking the human being. The Mayans were an example of “not using the wheel” (Post THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS, and future Post THE WALKING IN THE ANCIENT MAYAN PART II).

MAJOR PREMISE: Primitive man had to move upright, walking erect, and he generated a great evolution and mental capacity.

MINOR PREMISE: Modern man has stopped walking with negative repercussions on his health and his humanitarian attitude.

CONCLUSION: The current man will have to modify his sedentary lifestyle, increasing his walk, in order to achieve a new (r)evolution, in body, mind and spirit, to avoid his self-destruction.

Post PART II. HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER.

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