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Dr. James Cole - Stone Tools & Cognition

AnthroBiology Podcast

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The Complexity of Human Evolution

Human evolution has been under a cultural selection model for probably the last 500 or 1000 years. That's where we're not operating under the rules of natural selection, survival of the fittest and all of those things that people will be familiar with. But even pre-homosapiens, it just shows how embedded material culture and technology is within the way that we frame and construct our social networks. It's really ramped up over the last 10,000 years when we ceased to be undergathered groups,. Quite mobile across landscapes and more sedentary. And then all the other developments that came with that.

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