Monday, September 14, 2009

Temporocentrism

Temporocentrism is the view that one's own time is more important than other periods in history. This can be expressed via the viewpoint that humans are more intelligent today than they were at any point within the past fifty thousand years, even though there is no evidence that homo erectus' intelligence has varied greatly over that time frame.



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