ARCH 3115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abzu, Neocortex, Neuron
28 Jan 2017
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City comes before humans and the humans worship the gods. Homo-sapiens in africa; 200,000 years ago i. ii. iii. Change in earth"s climate - africa became dryer. Walking upright saves energy so they can find new food sources. Largest brain size in relation to our body c. Before they ate grasses - now, they can hunt and cook meat. Hunting - they would chase the animals until they tired and then kill them. Meat fuels the brain = brain growth = evolution d. Social habits enabled them to problem solve and survive. Chimpanzees are social - they learn authority, judgement of character, motivations a) Homo-sapiens have the capability to judge ones character through language a) Human population is now only a few thousand on the southern tip of africa a) b) All share common dna with one woman who survived elsewhere?? ii. iii. iv. v. Homo-sapiens migrate around the world 60,000 - 1,000 bp.
