Times uncertainty altricial Or made sure? A few human beings are unaware that we are living in uncertain times. Clear that other say that the life of our species is nothing but an eternal lack of secure and clear knowledge of something. But it seems that in these times of crisis the majority feeling is that we are especially vulnerable and our situation may worsen at any time.
Professor Bermudez de Castro, co-director of excavations at the Atapuerca site identifies one of the characteristics of the human evolutionary strategy: the altricial. By this name we must understand the poor neuromotor development are born with our children at birth. Apensen human babies at birth move is not until some months after birth that does not begin to flourish. Until some time after not begin to crawl and with at least one year does not begin to be bipedal. This means that parents should bestow many lengthy and expensive care to these infants until they begin to fend for themselves in our modern societies can last for many years.
The word is derived from the Latin root meaning alere "look at the back, or power" and refers to the need for young people to be fed and taken care of for a long duration. On the opposite side of the spectrum is that are precocial espcies at the time of his birth in which the young have open eyes, have hair, big brains and can move and move to defend against predators.
altricial as well as the psycho-physical process, we could talk about the social altricial as the process which is structured and organized a company to divert resources that can deal with one of the most disadvantaged social groups and that concern us: the young. The education system is vilified as unable to train them, the working world can not absorb this number of people who are not working accommodation, families' attitudes about protecting and behavior of the most contentious misfits, peer groups moving from inaction to confrontation etc.
This process generates social altricial dependence younger elements of society and therefore perfectly adaptive attitudes and behavior studied by social sciences are not always standardized.
These processes are extended in time and directly affect the development of the project so vital to young people in France in May had 68 direct response. The end of a cycle of prosperity, rising unemployment and social crisis caused a social role of young people facing the system allied to trade unions and leftist parties.
And in the Arab world are not we seeing a similar process? Young people, after years of hopelessness, repression, and be forced into emigration have broken out in Tunisia and dragged to other social groups, as in Egypt and the Arab world.
Being young is becoming a challenge. Will taking the spotlight with a complex situation and bad governance? Time will tell. Meanwhile, us with uncertainty.
