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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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La transición sociocultural empezó hace un millón de años.

The transition from bipedal apes to a species with collaborative foraging and hunting started less than a million years ago, possibly around half a million years ago. The emergence of cultural groups with different tools and the development of conventional language took place around 100 to 200,000 years ago. This signifies that humans have been on their own trajectory in the last million years, where something significantly different happened.

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