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Human existence and expansion occur on the face of the earth because individual humans strive for life and livelihood here and there in the world of commonsense . Human progress and evolution continue in the flow of time since every human being struggles to live and survive now and then around the clock of his or her experiential reality. This chapter approaches human evolution with attention to ongoing survival in the world of commonsense . Survival is obviously a process where subjects act upon objects, when objects feedback on subjects, where objects change as subjects grow, or when subjective entities adapt while objective environments evolve. Specifically, individual subjects embark on a life course from birth to death. A collective human species exists and persists by one generation over another. Particular objects come and go from form to form, content to content. A general environment occurs and sustains through cyclical changes yet with cumulative impacts.
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Shaw, V.N. (2019). Ongoing Survival. In: Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98195-6_13
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