Why g. k. chesterton claims that, "st. thomas aquinas, perhaps more than he is anything else, is a great anthropologist.

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In his book “Saint Thomas Aquinas” of 1933, G.K. Chesterton portrays Thomas Aquinas as a mysterious and brilliant man. Chesterton believes that Saint Thomas Aquinas view man as a whole, rather than as a beast like the anthropologists because Aquinas conceived men as an intricate spiritual being, not only flesh and blood. Aquinas, in opposition to the anthropology view, considered than man had a divine nature that makes humans special in relation to God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English novelist. After his conversión from Anglic to Catholic in 1922, he wrote books on religion such as “The Catholic Church Conversion”, “St. Francis of Assisi”, and the mentioned “Saint Thomas Aquinas.”

early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents and are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the out of africa migration of homo erectus. this initial migration was followed by other archaic humans including h. heidelbergensis, which lived around 500,000 years ago and was the likely ancestor of both denisovans and neanderthals. early hominids were said to have "crossed land bridges that were eventually covered in water" .

within africa, homo sapiens dispersed around the time of its speciation, roughly 300,000 years ago.the "recent african origin" paradigm suggests that the anatomically modern humans outside of africa descend from a population of homo sapiens migrating from east africa roughly 70,000 years ago and spreading along the southern coast of asia and to oceania before 50,000 years ago. modern humans spread across europe about 40,000 years ago.

the migrating modern human populations are known to have interbred with local varieties of archaic humans, so that contemporary human populations are descended in small part (below 10% contribution) from regional varieties of archaic humans.

after the last glacial maximum, north eurasian populations migrated to the americas about 20,000 years ago. northern eurasia was peopled after 12,000 years ago, in the beginning holocene. arctic canada and greenland were reached by the paleo-eskimo expansion around 4,000 years ago. finally, polynesia was peopled after 2,000 years ago, by the austronesian expansion.

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