CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Australopithecine, Atlantis, Social Cognition
14 Dec 2018
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Cgsc note - social cognition and the evolution of. What we know of our ancestors bodies come from fossils, but there are two problems with this: behaviour is not fossilized (therefore we rely on scant artifacts, but even these appeared only recently, fossils are very rare. One bone in a billion becomes fossilized - hard to nd. For the pop of canada, only six of the human bones will end up getting fossilized. The oldest fossils of fully-formed humans are only 50 to 100k years old. If language is an instinct, then it probably has to have been evolving for longer than humans have been around - chomsky. We don"t know that hey didn"t use tools. Only stone and metal tools last, most modern hunter-gatherer societies of today have more biodegradable tools than stone ones. Humans evolved from a non-human but human-like thing that does not exist - not a chimp.
