DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Homo Sapiens, The Civilizing Process, Zeitgeist
27 Jul 2020
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Written language and its influence on the development of psychology (when did they. How old is the earth? some 4. 6 billion years" old. 6-7 million years ago a class of bipeds was force out of the jungle into the savannah. Ancestors of the chimpanzees and modern humans. Homo (2 million years ago): homo habilis, homo erectus spread from africa to europe and asia, first species to use fire. Homo sapiens (200,00 years ago): emerged from homo erectus, started spreading over the globe: 50,000 years ago: start of expansion of the homo sapiens, 10,000 years ago: transition to farming and settlement. One hypothesis about the small genetic variation in current humans: 75,000-70,000 years ago an enormous volcanic eruption caused serious reducing in the variability of life. Neolithic revolution: the transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer society to a farming and settlement around 10,000 bce great impetus for thought and language development.
