ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: High Tech, Side-Scan Sonar, Dual Inheritance Theory
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Hominin: a member of the tribe hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now extinct bipedal relatives. One of the most distinctive behavioural features of humans is our extraordinary elaboration and dependence on culture. Human culture, in its defined contemporary contexts, involves much more than toolmaking. For humans, culture is a fundamental adaptive strategy involving cognitive, political, social, and economic components, as well as technology. The fundamental basis for human cultural success relates directly to cognitive abilities. Humans display complex language capabilities and only humans are dependent on symbolic communication. By at least 5 mya and even 7 mya, hominins had developed one crucial advantage. They were bipedal and could therefore much more easily carry all manner of objects from place to place. The earliest members of the lineage we call protohominins (5-7 mya) May have carried naturally sharp stones or flakes, parts of carcasses and pieces of wood around their home range.
