When I took an evolutionary biology course during my first semester at Jackson College, I was

impregnated with a deep passion for learning. I discovered avenues that had potential to take my
developing thoughts to places I never even would have had the ability to comprehend, learning
all about how man studied and classified different life forms, how many forms life had potential
to take, how to place my life in the big picture of evolutionary development all that and more,
not to mention a lot of specifics pertaining to various species. I effectively harnessed the ability
to understand what it meant to take advantage of my life and the opportunities I have to learn as
much as I possibly can. If, before this class, half of my brain was occupied with my current
understanding of life via evolutionary biology and the sciences, the other half is now filled with
my current understanding of life via the evolution of man and the humanities.

During this course, I learned about a lot more than just well-known theories (the dialectic method
and the mimetic theory to name a couple), philosophers, intellectuals, various art styles and their
characteristics, and how those characteristics came about. More importantly, I learned about
man. I now have ideas about the development of mans concept of the self, the development of
his thoughts, how he once saw himself fitting into the world, how he currently sees himself
fitting into the world, and how his seeing himself fitting into the world will change as a result of
his having developed technology to make his life easier. I learned about some of the ways in
which man pursues enlightenment, and that a work of art is much more than a mere
representation of an idea. In short, I learned that, to understand art is to understand man, and how
he (whoever he is) understands himself and the world around him.

Upon observing my ePortfolio, I hope for two things. First, that it is made clear to you that I have
a deep understanding of the timeline-fashioned evolution of man according to the textbook and
his various forms of representations of his life. I feel that this notion is fundamental to the
understanding that should be taken away from this humanities course and project in particular.
Second, I hope the risk that I have taken as part of creating this project is readily recognizable.
Moreover, I hope you feel that you are viewing this presentation as an audience member in the
distant future, being taken on an uber-technologically advanced, efficient, modernized tour
through the history of mans evolution via the humanities literally to the point that the
modernity of my presentation is more noticeable than the significance of the artistic expression
represented throughout the history of man. I created this ePortfolio with the intentions of,
essentially, adding another chapter on to the text that we read as a class, having skipped to some
time in the distant future, to the point that technology has overtaken man. My risk represents this
idea because I believe, based on the evolution of the humanities to this point, that mans most
valuable asset (his knowledge) serves him as a dual-edged sword, also inevitably leading to his
being overtaken by artificial intelligence. Thus, the characteristics of my ePortfolio are
representative of that: minimal, clean, efficient, technological, modern aesthetics.