BIO 358 Lecture 18: BIO 358 - Topic 18
15 Jan 2019
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Throwing stone was the original or first adaptive revolution that began with the origin of homo. If there is new adaptive sophistication, there should be a new weapon capable of managing conflict of interests at the next scale; a new social scale should also be made possible. If our social group is larger, we can now trade the fruits of our labor and we could have the public sphere which is the same as the public market exchange. Inuit in arctic canada have a town of 500 to 600 people; have simple tools, local knowledge, team work, support of the village and opportunity in village. Pre - human australopiths and hominids were mostly east african (6-1. 8 mya) Homo erectus (1. 8 mya) first reach southern eurasia; this population continues to undergo evolutionary change, achieves fully modern brain size and fully modern linguistic capabilities, evolving into homo heidelbergensis (0. 5 mya)
