225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Evolution of Bipedal Apes to Homo Sapiens Sapiens
The evolution of bipedal apes into Homo sapiens sapiens took six million years. For the first four million years, we were basically bipedal apes with small brains. Two million years ago, stone tools and slight brain growth appeared. Less than a million years ago, collaborative foraging and hunting emerged, possibly as recent as 100 to 200,000 years ago with Homo sapiens sapiens, where cultural groups with different tools and conventional language might have developed.
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