A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cambrian Explosion, Fertile Crescent, Edward Burnett Tylor
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Please keep in mind that some names/concepts/dates may be missing. If something is very wrong, feel free to contact me so i can also benefit from peer-review. The definitions that have been included can sometimes be very summarized, keep in mind that this is an overview, not a full summary! Lindberg (concluded that scientific thinking cannot occur without written records) Socrates [470-399bce] (said writing led to forgetfulness and laziness) Heraclitus [535-475bce] (said everything changes all the time) Plato [427-348bce] (rationalism, innate knowledge through deductive reasoning) Aristotle [384-322bce] (student of plato, focus on observation) Neocortical size vs group size (dunbar article) Group size effect on workload + disadvantages. Cambrian explosion: paleozoic era, mesozoic era, cenozoic era. Writing: know-how, fluidity of knowledge + stabilization, written records = external memory = more knowledge. Fertile crescent: ancient egypt, ancient mesopotamia, 4 conditions for growth. Kepler (took copernicus" model seriously and developed 3 laws of planetary motion to simplify astronomy) [1600]
