SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cultural Relativism, Homo Erectus, Culture Shock
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Paleoanthropologists and archeologists have studied the evolution of human culture to determine when culture may have began: social life. There is evidence that our early hominid ancestors (our human ancestors) lived in groups as far back as 4. 4 million years ago: parental care. Early hominids had smaller brain sizes than our more recent ancestors. As brain sized increased, birthing needed to occur at an earlier stage of development because a large head would not t through a female"s birth canal. This resulted in the need for greater parental care as the offspring were born at a less advanced developmental stage. Scientists believe that this change probably occurred with homo erectus 1. 9 million years ago: pair bonding. The attachment of a male to a female is believed to have occurred between. As offspring became more dependent for longer periods of time, the need grew to secure food and to protect the young: subsistence.
